Mail Gateway 8.1.2 logrotate

[abranca]

hi guys,
I have a problem that has been occurring for a few days.
logrotate won't boot up and I don't receive or send emails until I manually restart it.

I tried to re-enable the service with systemd but i get the error i post below.
is anyone experiencing the same problem?

thanks everyone!

Error

root@posta:~# systemctl status logrotate
logrotate.service - Rotate log files
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: logrotate.timer
       Docs: man:logrotate(8)
             man:logrotate.conf(5)
root@posta:~# systemctl restart logrotate
root@posta:~# systemctl enable logrotate
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,
Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template
units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
 
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
  .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
• A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
  a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
  D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
  instance name specified.

PMG packages

Proxmox
Mail Gateway 8.1.2
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proxmox-mailgateway-container: 8.1.0
pmg-api: 8.1.2
pmg-gui: 4.1.1
clamav-daemon: 1.0.5+dfsg-1~deb12u1
ifupdown: 0.8.41
libarchive-perl: 3.6.2
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-4
libjs-framework7: 4.4.7-2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.5.1
libproxmox-acme-plugins: 1.5.1
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.3.2
libpve-common-perl: 8.2.1
libpve-http-server-perl: 5.1.0
libxdgmime-perl: 1.1.0
lvm2: not correctly installed
pmg-docs: 8.1.1
pmg-i18n: 3.2.2
pmg-log-tracker: 2.5.0
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.4.0
proxmox-offline-mirror-helper: 0.6.6
proxmox-spamassassin: 4.0.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 4.2.3
pve-xtermjs: 5.3.0-3

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

On a hunch - is the container PMG runs in unprivileged (I assume it's running on a PVE) - if yes - make sure you have enabled nesting in the container options!

 

[abranca]

Forgive the lack, yes it is run in an LXC container on Proxmox VE.
Nesting is active.
I tried restoring a previous backup and everything is back up and running. I don't understand, however, what the problem might be due to.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Ok - so that's not the reason...

logrotate is started by sytemd-timer/cron ....

what's the output of:
`systemctl list-timers`
`systemctl status logrotate.timer`
`systemctl status logrotate.service`

also check the journal for messages that might explain why it's not working (`journalctl --since 2024-08-01` for the journal from August until today)