Package: debianutils
Version: 2.17
Severity: normal
Running:
savelog -t -q -j -d -c 99 yip
causes an error like this to be printed:
bzip2: Input file yip.20061001030006.bz2 already has .bz2 suffix.
if there are previously compressed and rotated versions of the file
already there.
The problem is at about line 250 of /usr/bin/savelog:
# compress the old uncompressed log if needed
if test -n "$datum" && test -n "$COMPRESS"; then
$COMPRESS -- "$newname".[0-9]*[0-9]
fi
This code is trying to compress old dated files but also catches files
ending in "[0-9]*.bz2".
Possible solutions, from hackiest to best, include:
* Pass -q to $COMPRESS. This will stop the warning appearing.
However, if the compression scheme is changed from gzip to bzip2
(or vice-versa) between uses of savelog, this will still allow gzipped
files to be recompressed with bzip2.
* Only try to compress files ending in 2 consecutive digits. This will
fix the current problem but will no doubt fail in the future.
* Since the value of $DATUM will always contain 14 digits then only
compress files ending in 14 digits. I'm not sure this is locale-safe.
* Generate a list of files to compress, removing any that end in $DOT_Z.
This is pretty good but still allows recompression of files if the
compression scheme is changed.
* As above but filter out anything that looks like a compressed
filename.
Thanks...
peace & happiness,
martin
-- System Information:
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