error: skipping "/var/mail/kathirvel" 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.

logrotate-parent-directory-has-insecure-permissions.md

error: skipping "/var/mail/kathirvel" 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.

Solution

For example: if you are going to configure the logrotate to /var/mail/kathirvel file, it will have the permissions like owner=kathirvel, group=mail. We should mention 'su username groupname' to non-root user's file. The configuration will be like below

/var/mail/kathirvel
{
        rotate 3
        su kathirvel mail
        maxsize 1M
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
}