This bug doesn't exist in Debian, it's only Ubuntu related workaround for
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), see LP bug #1258202
logrotate (3.8.6-1ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=low
* debian/logrotate.conf: use group 'syslog' by default when rotating logs,
otherwise logrotate will refuse to rotate logs in /var/log whose owning
group is now syslog instead of root. LP: #1258202.
-- Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 05 Dec 2013
10:35:47 -0800
Ubuntu developers, please change /etc/logrotate.conf line
su root syslog
to
su root adm
Or maybe we can remove this line from /etc/logrotate.conf , because in
Debian logrotate package there are no such line since 2013 ...
** Tags added: bionic regression-release xenial
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1644996
Title:
logrotate config uses syslog group
Status in logrotate package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The default logrotate config uses the "syslog" group.
> # use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group
> # of /var/log/syslog.
> su root syslog
This is not correct anymore since 16.04, because:
1. "syslog" group doesn't exist on a stock Ubuntu 16.04 system, it only gets
installed via rsyslog
2. The owning group is actually "adm".
This results in logrotate terminating with the following error during
cron.daily run:
run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily
run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
error: /etc/logrotate.conf:7 unknown group 'syslog'
And can be fixed by changing syslog to adm group.
This is not present when rsyslog is installed, but only because that package
creates the syslog group. This is a common bug in lighter environments, like
Docker, where syslog-ng is a common choice instead of rsyslog, like in this
issue:
https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/issues/338
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