Logrotate not rotating without size config

Question

On RedHat, I have a logrotate configuration as follows :

/custom/path/kibana/logs/*.log {
  missingok
  daily
  create 0644 suuser suuser
  rotate 7
  notifempty
  sharedscripts
  compress
  dateext
  dateformat -%Y%m%d%s
  su suuser suuser
  postrotate
      /bin/kill -HUP $(cat /custom/path/kibana/run/kibana.pid 2>/dev/null) 2>/dev/null
  endscript
}

I ran logrotate with debug and force flags to verify it would run fine. And it actually rotated my log file. So I thought everything was fine in my config.

But then, during crontab run, I saw the next day that the logs were not rotated. I tried to run logrotate in debug mode and got this message :

log does not need rotating (log has been already rotated)not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated

I removed the logrotate.status file having in mind that during next crontab run it would run from scratch and get back to normal. But the day after, I noticed that my log files targeted by the above config were not present in the logrotate.status file and that I still have the same message when trying to run manually saying that log has been already rotated.

I'm very confused especially given the fact that when I add a size criteria in my config, it runs fine !

Would you guys please have an explanation ?

Thanks a lot for your help and explanations.

Kind regards,

Pierre

Logrotate not rotating without size config

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