Steve Langasek (vorlon), yes lots of Ubuntu users, including me have lots of containers (based on ubuntu-minimal - Ubuntu developers created "Minimal" LXC container image without rsyslog package by default), see ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.manifest:
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/bionic/release/ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg- amd64.manifest Also see these posts and work-arounds for example: http://www.markusz.io/posts/2017/09/29/logrotate/#known-issues https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues/1544#issuecomment-373366621 https://gitlab.timmertech.nl/docker/gitlab/commit/428e37a821f94af03e72201420ee2874be8834b4 ** Bug watch added: github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues #1544 https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/issues/1544 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to logrotate in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1644996 Title: logrotate config uses syslog group Status in logrotate package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in logrotate source package in Bionic: New Status in logrotate source package in Cosmic: New 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1644996/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
