[clue-admin] Logrotate is b0rked
David Anselmi
anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Mar 28 17:27:50 MST 2005
Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> And the bugzilla discussion is a low-heat flamewar. No noted resolution as
> to whether logrotate is going to get fixed -- or even if it needs fixed.
> At least I don't feel quote so dumb about not recognizing that the
> logrotate problem occurred only after changing /tmp.
So why'd you change /tmp? Whatever the reason, you probably need to
chagne /var/tmp too, right?
> Guess I'll have to mod the main logrotate config file. I prefer that to
> patching logrotate, at the moment.
Agreed, ditto for the cron script.
> If it comes out that logrotate will stay the way it is, then that
> means continual patching of each new release, whereas modding the
> config file is easier to do, even if it means having to re-add the
> environment line anytime it gets replace by an RPM upgrade of
> logrotate.
If RPM doesn't respect changes you make to either logrotate.conf or
cron.daily/logrotate, I'd change distros. It should know better.
Dave
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