Comment 4 for bug 662312

Testing on saucy, problem no longer exists. This makes sense as it contains logrotate 3.8.3; ability to have spaces in compressoptions was patched in as of debian package version 3.8.1-5.

I tried installing the trusty build of logrotate on precise and it failed wanting a slightly newer libacl1. You could go down a rathole of trying to install that (warning, it's likely to want a newer glibc, then you're in a real mess...) Or build newer logrotate from source.

Or just temporarily kludge around it, e.g.:

   compresscmd /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate
   compressoptions --

# cat > /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate << _EOF_
#!/bin/sh
exec xz -vvz9e --lzma2=dict=64MiB,mf=bt4,nice=273 --threads=3
_EOF_
# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate

*IF* those compressoptions were delivered by an apache package that's part of the standard repositories for precise, that's a bug in the apache package. It shouldn't be trying to use options that cannot be parsed by the logrotate of the associated release. If you pulled the package from a forward Ubuntu release, you caused the problem; if it's from a PPA or similar, and you are using it on an Ubuntu release it's documented to be used with, it's a bug in the PPA...