Package: logrotate Version: 3.7-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
If there is a file in /etc/logrotate.d, which refers to some glob pattern (in my case it was /var/log/mgetty/*.log), and there is no files matching this pattern, logrotate stops upon processing this file and doesn't process rest of file. Such situation can happen if there is removed package, with only configuration files present (logrotate scripts are typically marked as configuration file), or program which generates these files is disabled somehow (for example, mgetty is commented out in /etc/inittab) and all its log files are rotated away. Both situation are quite normal for multi-purpose machines. In such case big and fast-growing log files, which happen to be processed after "incorrect" logrotate.d entry are not rotated and can overfull log partition and render system totally unusable. In my case non-rotation of apache logs have caused overfull of /var and thus stopping of accepting incoming mail. Situation is quite hard to debug, because logrotate.d entry for package which caused overfull (apache) was absolutely correct, and problem was caused by unrelated and removed package. -- Package-specific info: Contents of /etc/logrotate.d итого 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 2003-09-23 20:08 acpid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 2004-11-18 13:13 apache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 2004-09-28 22:44 aptitude -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 2004-12-04 01:25 base-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 2005-05-18 19:09 clamav-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 2005-04-30 17:59 clamav-freshclam -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151 2002-01-27 15:54 iptraf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 2004-10-07 21:13 jabber -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 2004-07-25 17:12 mgetty-fax -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 2004-04-06 18:41 mrtg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 2004-11-23 17:52 postgresql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 2004-07-16 21:30 ppp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 2005-04-19 06:02 samba -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 2004-09-28 23:34 uucp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 311 2004-08-22 00:26 wu-ftpd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 335 2005-06-01 10:03 xdm -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-xeon Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Versions of packages logrotate depends on: 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 -- no debconf information
