How can I monitor what logrotate is doing?
How can I monitor what logrotate is doing in Ubuntu? Can the activity of logrotate be monitored?
cat /var/lib/logrotate/status
To verify if a particular log is indeed rotating or not and to check the last date and time of its rotation, check the /var/lib/logrotate/status file. This is a neatly formatted file that contains the log file name and the date on which it was last rotated.
Taken From:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-manage-log-files-with-logrotate-on-ubuntu-12-10
You can try running logrotate in debug or verbose mode:
-d Turns on debug mode and implies -v. In debug mode, no changes
will be made to the logs or to the logrotate state file.
-v, --verbose
Display messages during rotation.
In Suse Linux distros is like this:
cat /var/lib/logrotate.status