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If, while log rotating with the lovely logrotate, you get ‘sh: line 2: postrotate: command not found’ then you’re probably missing an endscript. This took me a while to notice. I found a number of people with the same problem, such as this chap, and if you look at his script he’s done exactly what I had, and failed to notice that endscript delimits (quite sensibly) the end of each post/pre block, rather than being the end of the script as a whole (which is delimited with {}).

/var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3A.log /var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3.log {
daily
rotate 14
compress
create 644 apache apache
sharedscripts
prerotate
  /usr/bin/svc -d /service/somecustom3
postrotate
  /usr/bin/svc -u /service/somecustom3
endscript
}


/var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3A.log /var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3.log {
daily
rotate 14
compress
create 644 apache apache
sharedscripts
prerotate
  /usr/bin/svc -d /service/somecustom3
endscript
postrotate
  /usr/bin/svc -u /service/somecustom3
endscript
}

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