Plesk email notification is received: error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is already locked

Symptoms

• An email notification that contains the following error notification is received often:

  CONFIG_TEXT: error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is already locked
  logrotate does not support parallel execution on the same set of logfiles.

Cause

The error is related to the execution of the /usr/share/imunify360-wafd/logrotate cron task.

The message you are encountering typically arises when two separate logrotate processes are executed simultaneously, due to which one of them fails to be executed, since the execution itself requires certain files to be locked for use temporarily and it is not possible for them to be locked by two separate processes simultaneously.

Resolution

The error itself has no actual impact and can be safely ignored. This issue was caused by a bug within Imunify360 extension, designated by Imunify's team as DEF-34536 and it has been fixed in webshield-1.34.3 component update.

Update the Imunify extension to install the updated component and resolve this issue.