Bug#576369: logrotate: wtmp/btmp handling

2010-04-04 Thread Paul Martin
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:26:16AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Ah,... and what speaks against putting the wtmp/btmp rules in an own > file? Because no other package handles them. They're also in the default upstream configuration file. -- Paul Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#576369: logrotate: wtmp/btmp handling

2010-04-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ah,... and what speaks against putting the wtmp/btmp rules in an own file? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#576369: logrotate: wtmp/btmp handling

2010-04-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 13:05 +0100, Paul Martin wrote: > If utmp/wtmp are present and are being rotated, their replacements > should have the correct ownership and permissions. If they are not > present, then they will neither be created nor rotated. Anyway, but then it should be enough to use just

Bug#576369: logrotate: wtmp/btmp handling

2010-04-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.8-5 Severity: wishlist Hi. Perhaps the handling of wtmp/btmp rotation can be improved a little bit: 1) Since base-files 5.1 (IIRC) the two files are created by default like this: >chown root:utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/btmp /var/log/lastlog >chmod 664 /var/log/wtm