Installing Logrotate on Solaris 9

Before Installing

• Make sure that your $PATH includes /usr/bin: /usr/ucb: /usr/ccs/bin: /usr/xpg4/bin: /usr/sfw/bin: /opt/sfw/bin: /etc: . : /sbin: /usr/sbin
• Download gettext-0.11.5.tar.gz (must be installed before popt)
• Download popt-1.6.4.tar.gz (must be installed before logrotate)
• Download logrotate-3.5.2.tar.gz

Installing GNU gettext

GNU gettext is needed by the popt library for proper installation. If you are having trouble installing, use the --disable-nls option when you configure, and it will work properly with the popt library for use with logrotate.

[prompt]$ ./configure
[prompt]$ gmake
[prompt]$ su
[prompt]# gmake install

Installing popt library

The popt library is neccesary for installing logrotate correctly on Solaris 9.

[prompt]$ gunzip vf popt-1.6.2.tar.gz
[prompt]$ tar xvf popt-1.6.2.tar
[prompt]$ cd popt-1.6.2

• At this point, make sure that in the file configure, the line pointing to xgettext is pointing to the right location of xgettext on your computer.
  
  /usr/local/bin/xgettext --version 2>&1 | grep 'GNU gettext' >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "configure: error:
*** GNU gettext is required. The latest version
*** is always available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/." 1>&2; exit 1; }

[prompt]$ ./configure
[prompt]$ gmake
[prompt]$ su
[prompt]# gmake install
[prompt]# exit


Installing logrotate

Once gettext and popt are properly installed on your system, you are ready to begin the installation of logrotate.

[prompt]$ gunzip vf logrotate-3.3.tar.gz
[prompt]$ tar xvf logrotate-3.3.tar
[prompt]$ cd logrotate-3.3
[prompt]$ gmake

• ERROR
  cc -E -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\"3.5.2\" -g -M logrotate.c log.c config.c basenames.c >.depend
/bin/sh: cc: Command is not found. Make: *** [ depend ] Error 1
  
  To fix, use gmake CC=gcc instead of just gmake.
  
  
• ERROR
  gcc -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\" 3.5.2\" -g -c logrotate.c -o logrotate.o
logrotate.c:6: getopt.h: There is no file or a directory.
  
  To fix, comment out the #include getopt.h in the files config.c and logrotate.c.
  
  
• ERROR
  (snip) gcc -g logrotate.o log.o config.o basenames.o -lpopt -o logrotate
undefined symbol isblank is first referenced in file config.c
  
  To fix, insert the following code into the config.c file. This will give a definition for the isblank function, since it isn't defined on your system.
  
  #ifndef isblank
#define isblank(c)((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
#endif
  

[prompt]$ gcc -g logrotate.o log.o config.o basenames.o -lpopt -o logrotate -R/opt/sfw/lib

• This command needs to be run so that the libpopt.so.0 library can be found at runntime by logrotate. The -R/opt/sfw/lib points to the directory where libpopt.so.0 is located. Check to make sure your's is the same.

[prompt]$ su
[prompt]# gmake install
[prompt]# mkdir -p /etc/logrotate.d
[prompt]# cp ./examples/logrotate-default /etc/logrotate.conf
[prompt]# exit
[prompt]$ logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

• ERROR
  error: error creating state file /var/lib/logrotate.status: No such file or directory
  
  To fix, do the following:
  
  [prompt]# mkdir -p /var/lib
[prompt]# touch /var/lib/logrotate.status
  
  Then add the following line to the top of the file /var/lib/logrotate.status:
  
  logrotate state -- version 1
  
  

Now logrotate should run properly on your Solaris 9 system.