Logrotate problem

#1

hi,
When pihole logrotate script run,i took an error.The logrotate script is;
root@xxx:/etc/cron.d# more pihole

# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
# (c) 2017 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
#
# Updates ad sources every week
#
# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
#
#
#
# This file is under source-control of the Pi-hole installation and update
# scripts, any changes made to this file will be overwritten when the softare
# is updated or re-installed. Please make any changes to the appropriate crontab
# or other cron file snippets.

# Pi-hole: Update the ad sources once a week on Sunday at a random time in the
#          early morning. Download any updates from the adlists
#          Squash output to log, then splat the log to stdout on error to allow for
#          standard crontab job error handling.
2 4   * * 7   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity >/var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log || cat /var/log/pi
hole_updateGravity.log

# Pi-hole: Flush the log daily at 00:00
#          The flush script will use logrotate if available
#          parameter "once": logrotate only once (default is twice)
#          parameter "quiet": don't print messages
**49 08 * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once quiet**

@reboot root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/pihole/logrotate

# Pi-hole: Grab local version and branch every 10 minutes
30 13 *  * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local

# Pi-hole: Grab remote version every 24 hours
45 14  * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote
@reboot root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote reboot

the problem is
49 08 * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once quiet
when was this command run,i took an error.tihs syslog look like;

Nov 25 08:49:01 xx cron[1001]: (systempihole) RELOAD (/etc/cron.d/pihole)
Nov 25 08:49:01 xx cron[1001]: Error: bad username; while reading /etc/cron.d/pihole
Nov 25 08:49:01xx cron[1001]: (systempihole) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)

No permission problem ;

root@xx:/etc/cron.d# ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  285 May 29  2017 anacron
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  589 Oca 30  2019 mdadm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  712 Oca 18  2018 php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 Kas 25 08:57 pihole

Other scripts are no problem,they are runnning.But this script isnt.
Can you help me ?

#2

The offending line seems to be this

It seems you were trying to configure that to run just once a day at 13:30 :clock130:, but introduced an error in doing so: Your file has been edited supplying one * too many, causing cron to see that asterisk for the username, instead of the following root.

In contrast, the original default content reads:
*/10 * * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local

Apart from the *-typo, I’d leave that job running a bit more frequently than just once a day, as it was scheduled to run every 10 minutes by default.

Also, I am assuming that the leading/trailing ** for the line you suspected have been injected by the discourse editor in an attempt to boldly highlight the line. If not, remove those as well.

#3

Bucking_Horn
i edited this file and then i runned manually the script.
06 00 * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local >/root/a

more /root/a
[✓] Flushed /var/log/pihole.log
[✓] Deleted queries from database

root@xx:/etc/cron.d# more pihole
# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
# (c) 2017 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
#
# Updates ad sources every week
#
# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
#
#
#
# This file is under source-control of the Pi-hole installation and update
# scripts, any changes made to this file will be overwritten when the softare
# is updated or re-installed. Please make any changes to the appropriate crontab
# or other cron file snippets.

# Pi-hole: Update the ad sources once a week on Sunday at a random time in the
#          early morning. Download any updates from the adlists
#          Squash output to log, then splat the log to stdout on error to allow
for
#          standard crontab job error handling.
2 4   * * 7   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity >/var/lo
g/pihole_updateGravity.log || cat /var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log

# Pi-hole: Flush the log daily at 00:00
#          The flush script will use logrotate if available
#          parameter "once": logrotate only once (default is twice)
#          parameter "quiet": don't print messages
05 00 * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once > /root/a
#09 14 * * *  /usr/local/bin/pihole flush once > /root/a

@reboot root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/pihole/logrotate

# Pi-hole: Grab local version and branch every 10 minutes
#*/10 * * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local
35 14 * * *   root      PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local

# Pi-hole: Grab remote version every 24 hours
45 14  * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote
@reboot root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote reboot

The problem is solved.

Thank you very much for your help,

Regards