mosquitto and logrotate: is killall missing?

[HankB]

My server emailed me this morning with the message:

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/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
logrotate_script: 2: logrotate_script: /usr/bin/killall: not found
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log of '/var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

Server is running Debian Stretch server (no GUI.)

Poking around a bit I see that killall is provided by the package psmisc which is not installed on this system. I also see that mosquitto was updated yesterday. I also see that mosquitto does not require psmisc.

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root@oak:/var/log# apt-cache depends mosquitto
mosquitto
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: libuuid1
  Depends: lsb-base
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libssl1.1
  Depends: libwebsockets8
  Depends: libwrap0
  Suggests: apparmor
root@oak:/var/log# apt search killall
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
psmisc/stable 22.21-2.1+b2 amd64
  utilities that use the proc file system

sysvinit-utils/stable,now 2.88dsf-59.9 amd64 [installed]
  System-V-like utilities

root@oak:/var/log#

I can't find "logrotate_script" via apt or in /var, /etc, /usr or /opt.

It looks to me like the update to the mosquitto package now includes a dependency on psmisc but is not configured to require this. Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks!

[bw123]

yes.

[debiman]

I can't find "logrotate_script"

but you really need to find it, because that's where the answer to your problem lies (and not in packages and their dependencies).

try:

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find / -name '*logrotate_script*' 2>/dev/null

of course, as bw123 put it so succinctly, you could also just install killall and be done with it.

[HankB]

I can't find "logrotate_script"

...

of course, as bw123 put it so succinctly, you could also just install killall and be done with it.

Of course that's the solution to the immediate problem. However since I'm running Testing I thought I'd try to determine what the issue was and submit a bug report so this gets fixed before the package rolls to Stable. That's the point of Testing, right?
I didn't want to file a bug report if I was mistaken about the source of the problem.

At this point it is moot as something has now pulled in the psmisc package which includes /usr/bin/killall.

thanks,
hank

[debiman]

Of course that's the solution to the immediate problem. However since I'm running Testing I thought I'd try to determine what the issue was and submit a bug report so this gets fixed before the package rolls to Stable. That's the point of Testing, right?

which just brings you back to the need to find logrotate_script.