Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7.1-3
Severity: minor
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logrotate does its job completely,
even more, it does one thing too much:
reports errors where in fact there are no errors,
except for the errormessages.
Only a minor issue, nevertheless annoying.
It seems to be related with option delaycompress.
anacron sends errormessages like this:
#-------------------------------------
== 2007-11-04 So 07:40:32 CET ==
From: Anacron <root>
To: root
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on roland
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: Failed to remove old log /var/log/acpid-20071104.gz: No such file or
directory
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
$ LC_ALL=C ls -dlt /var/log{,/acpi*}
#-----------------------------------
-rw-r----- 1 root root 149034 20071104.153034 /var/log/acpid
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 36864 20071104.074018 /var/log/
-rw-r----- 1 root root 2122138 20071104.074010 /var/log/acpid-20071104
-rw-r----- 1 root root 99492 20071028.115927 /var/log/acpid-20071028.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 106454 20071021.094736 /var/log/acpid-20071021.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 113351 20071013.184534 /var/log/acpid-20071013.gz
$ grep ^[a-z] /etc/logrotate.conf
#---------------------------------
dateext
size 2M
delaycompress
missingok
tabooext + .orig
create
compress
include /etc/logrotate.d
$ grep -v \# /etc/logrotate.d/acpid
#-----------------------------------
/var/log/acpid {
compress
missingok
postrotate
pkill -SIGUSR1 acpid > /dev/null || true
endscript
}
There are similar erroneous error messages concerning /var/log/daemon.log,
/var/log/apache/access.log . If two or more logfiles are rotated during
one cron.daily job, the errormessages sent by anacron look like this example:
== 2007-09-24 Mo 17:52:23 CEST ==
From: Anacron <root>
To: root
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on roland
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: Failed to remove old log /var/log/acpid-20070924.gz: No such file or
directory
error: Failed to remove old log /var/log/daemon.log-20070924.gz: No such file
or directory
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
Reproducible:
#------------
Error is observed ALWAYS, when one ore more logfiles are rotated with option
delaycompress.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.5roland2
Debian Release: 4.0
500 unstable gd.tuwien.ac.at
500 testing security.debian.org
500 testing gd.tuwien.ac.at
500 oldstable gd.tuwien.ac.at
500 edgy wine.budgetdedicated.com
1 experimental gd.tuwien.ac.at
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
============================-+-=============
libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) | 2.6.1-1
libpopt0 (>= 1.7) | 1.10-3
libselinux1 (>= 1.30) | 2.0.15-2+b1
cron | 3.0pl1-100
OR anacron | 2.3-13
OR fcron |
base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4) | 3.5.11
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Roland Eggner
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