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Author: Martin Gallant
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/mythtv/*.log '
On a fresh install of jessie/testting
with Myth frontend installed only (Backend is on another machine on my network)
I get the following error from cron every morning:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/mythtv/*.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

$ls -l /var/log
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv            mythtv        4096 Aug 27 06:15 mythtv
...


$ ls -Rl /var/log/mythtv
/var/log/mythtv:
total 72
-rw-r----- 1 mythtv mythtv     0 Aug 27 06:15 mythfrontend.log
-rw-r----- 1 mythtv mythtv 36675 Aug 25 17:27 mythfrontend.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 mythtv mythtv     0 Aug 27 06:15 mythlogserver.log
-rw-r----- 1 mythtv mythtv 36487 Aug 25 17:32 mythlogserver.log.1


$ dpkg -l | grep mythtv
ii  mythtv-common                            0.26.0+fixes20130802-dmo1
    all          Personal video recorder application (common data).
ii  mythtv-doc                               0.26.0+fixes20130802-dmo1
    all          Personal video recorder application (documentation).
ii  mythtv-frontend                          0.26.0+fixes20130802-dmo1
    amd64        Personal video recorder application (client).
ii  python-mythtv                            0.26.0+fixes20130802-dmo1
    all          Personal video recorder application (common data).


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Marty