Comments in conf causes Unknown directive error

[dhoer]

Logrotatewin v0.0.0.17 sucks up the next uncommented line as part of the comment and throws Unknown directive error at the end, e.g.,

# my comment

c:\test.log {
  ...
}

Would result in the following output:

...
logrotate: read line # my comment c:\test.log {
logrotate: Skipping comment
...
logrotate: Unknown directive }

Let me know if you would like this written up as another issue.

[pkumarex]

Can anyone please tell where the configuration file should be placed for logrotate ?

[shoddyguard]

Just hit this myself on the version that's coming from chocolatey. I've found that if you end the comment with {} it seems to stop being gobbling up the rest of the text.

Example

Broken:

# Test 

  compress
C:\test.log {
	rotate 5
	daily
}

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate> .\logrotate.exe logrotate.conf -v -d
logrotate: logrotate 0.0.0.17 - Copyright  (C) 2012-2016 Ken Salter
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Debug option set to true
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Parsing configuration file logrotate.conf
logrotate: read line # Test compress C:\test.log {
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line rotate 5
logrotate: Setting rotate to 5
logrotate: read line daily
logrotate: Setting daily to True
logrotate: read line }
logrotate: Unknown directive }
logrotate: read line

Working:

# Test {}

  compress
C:\test.log {
	rotate 5
	daily
}

logrotate: logrotate 0.0.0.17 - Copyright  (C) 2012-2016 Ken Salter
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Debug option set to true
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Parsing configuration file logrotate.conf
logrotate: read line # Test {}
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line compress
logrotate: Setting compress to True
logrotate: read line C:\test.log {
logrotate: Processing new section
logrotate: read line rotate 5
logrotate: Setting rotate to 5
logrotate: read line daily
logrotate: Setting daily to True
logrotate: read line }
logrotate: read line
logrotate: Processing C:\test.log
logrotate: Rotating file C:\test.log
logrotate: Rotate will be simulated because Debug is true
logrotate: Renaming C:\test.log to C:\\test.log.1
logrotate: Compressing rotated log file C:\\test.log.1

Hope this helps someone else in the future too!