Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7-5
Severity: normal
After I upgraded from woody to sarge, syslogd is no longer
signalled when the logs are rotated. The effect is that
syslogd continues to write to /var/log/syslog.0 instead of
the new /var/log/syslog, and my log tracking scripts (which
assume writes will always go to /var/log/syslog) fails to
catch the new entries.
I worked around the problem by putting the following in
/etc/logrotate.conf and I'm suggesting this should probably be in there by
default:
/var/log/syslog {
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/messages {
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/logrotate.d
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 2005-05-11 10:33 apache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 2005-04-07 14:43 aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 2005-04-19 15:27 cupsys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151 2002-01-27 12:54 iptraf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB)
Versions of packages logrotate depends on:
ii anacron 2.3-11 a cron-like program that doesn't g
ii base-passwd 3.5.9 Debian base system master password
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
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