Bug#128148: marked as done (problems with transition from savelog to logrotate)
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From: Arndt Schoenewald <arndt@lin02384n012.mc.schoenewald.de>
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Subject: problems with transition from savelog to logrotate
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Package: apache
Version: 1.3.22-5
In package version 1.3.22-4, the log file rotation mechanism was changed
from savelog to logrotate. I think there are three problems with the
current state of affairs:
- Log files in directories other than /var/log/apache that were rotated
before are no longer rotated now. The postinst script checks for this
and prints a message, but this message is easy to miss. The fact that
administrator intervention is required should IMHO be presented much
more prominently.
- File naming: savelog rotated file.log to file.log.0, while logrotate
starts with file.log.1 and ignores the existing file.log.0. This
causes the .0 files from the last-but-one logging period to stay
around forever, and, even worse, this logging period is missing in
the rotated series of files, causing a gap in the statistics data.
- The logrotate config file /etc/logrotate.d/apache does not contain
the option "delaycompress"; the absence of this option causes
logrotate to compress the last log file while apache is still
writing to it (the "/etc/init.d/apache reload" is only run after
the whole rotating business is over). This means that log entries
can get lost.
I found this out today when I upgraded a web server running "woody" from
1.3.22-2.1 to 1.3.22-5 and ran "logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/apache".
Until these issues are addressed, I'd rather stay away from upgrading my
other production web servers to a current version of the apache package.
Thank you for your work and consideration!
Arndt
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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This bug dealt with problems around the transition from cron.daily to
logrotate. All the issues here were addressed some time ago.
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