Bug#611238: logrotate: wrong order of compression and script execution

2014-11-04 Thread Matthew Rahtz
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:34:44 + Paul Martin wrote: > Have you got a logrotate.conf script that exhibits this behaviour? > > From my reading of the source code, there should not be any change in > this behaviour between versions. > > My suspicion is that you have "delaycompress" set: We've jus

Bug#611238: logrotate: wrong order of compression and script execution

2011-04-14 Thread Joel Smith
Hi, I agree with the original submitter (Carsten Otto) that the man page and the code don't match. The code does these steps (if applicable): 1. Rotate (rename) the log file 2. Call the post-rotate script 3. Compress the rotated (renamed) log file One part of the man page implies that the cod

Bug#611238: logrotate: wrong order of compression and script execution

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Martin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:04:34AM +0100, Carsten Otto wrote: > according to the logrotate man page the script is executed after > compression: "The sharedscripts means that the postrotate script will > only be run once (after the old logs have been com‐ pressed) [...]". > This was the case with le

Bug#611238: logrotate: wrong order of compression and script execution

2011-01-27 Thread Carsten Otto
Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.8-6 Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Dear all, according to the logrotate man page the script is executed after compression: "The sharedscripts means that the postrotate script will only be run once (after the old logs have been com‐ pressed) [...]". This was the cas