reassign 534219 logrotate thanks Marsh Ray wrote: > Package: rsyslog > Version: 3.18.6-4 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > > The rsyslog package (and some others) install an extension conf > file at /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog . > > This file makes a noble effort at triggering rsyslog to start a > new file after rotation: > postrotate > invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload > /dev/null > endscript > > However, it seems the environment in which the postrotate script > executes does not allow invoke-rc.d to be found via the path. > > This can be easily reproduced by configuring logrotate to trigger > on a small file size with the 'delaycompress' option. Set up a > loop to generate log messages, and watch ls -lht on the directory. > Run logrotate manually, or have cron run it every minute to speed > the repro. Observe that logrotate rotates the files, but syslog > continues writing to the same filehandle (the file now ending > in .1). > > One solution is to simply specify an absolute path for invoke-rc.d: > postrotate > /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload > /dev/null > endscript > > Another solution might be to patch logrotate to use a login shell: > - logrotate.c(102): if (write(fd, "#!/bin/sh\n\n", 11) != 11 || > + logrotate.c(102): if (write(fd, "#!/bin/sh -\n\n", 11) != 11 || > but that could have other effects and is probably outside the scope > of this bug. > > Other packages (ones I don't have installed) are probably affected, > I don't know the best way to track them down and bug them.
That sounds like a bug in logrotate which should set the correct context to run it's post-rotate scripts under. I don't plan to add absolute paths to the rsyslog.conf file. So reassigning to logrotate. Cheers, Michael
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