PowerPath Management Appliance 2.1 SP1 : logrotate errors in PPMA var/log/warn log
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Symptoms
The PowerPath VA app is reporting logrotate error in /var/log/warn log (in the Management Appliance VM). You may see error messages like:
Feb 20 13:45:03 cgvx000000526 logrotate: error: skipping "/var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
And the World wide permissions for /var/log/tomcat7 directory is 664 - the logrotate.config file states 644.
Cause
Tomcat should have been handling log rotation itself, not offloading to logrotate tool.
Resolution
This will be fixed in PPMA 2.2.
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Article Number: 000167361
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2025
Version: 3
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