Bug#282042: apache-common/logs incorrectly complains about logging to pipes

[Allard Hoeve <allard@byte.nl>]

Package: apache-common
Version: 1.3.33-2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainers,

In our apache setup, we log to a program. This program transports messages to a logserver, which than processes the 
logentries. This is working fine.

While upgrading apache, the postinst scripts prompt me with a message that apache has switched to logrotate and logfiles
should be situated in /var/log and nowhere else. While this could potentially be a very useful message, all my logfiles are
in /var/log/, except for my pipe ofcourse. While investigating the situation, I wrote up this quick patch to make
postinst.common not croak when encountering pipes. This should confuse fewer users.

Please apply.

Regards,

Allard


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-byte
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apache-common depends on:
ii  apache-utils           1.3.33-2.1        Utility programs for webservers
ii  debconf                1.4.30.10         Debian configuration management sy
ii  elinks [www-browser]   0.9.1+0.9.2pre4-1 Character mode WWW/FTP browser
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2               4.2.52-17         Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1              1.95.8-1          XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  lynx [www-browser]     2.8.5-2           Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  mime-support           3.28-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                   5.8.4-3           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                    4.1.2-1           The GNU sed stream editor
ii  ucf                    1.13              Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  apache-common/confignotes:
  apache-common/old-logrotate-exists:
* apache-common/logs:
  apache-shared/debconf-modules: mod_userdir, mod_status, mod_ssl, mod_setenvif, mod_rewrite, mod_negotiation, mod_mime_magic, mod_mime, mod_log_config, mod_include, mod_env, mod_dir, mod_cgi, mod_autoindex, mod_auth, mod_alias, mod_actions, mod_access, mod_php4
  apache-shared/restart: false

Index: listlogfiles
===================================================================
--- listlogfiles	(revision 102)
+++ listlogfiles	(working copy)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 # take away surrounding ' and "
     $file =~ s/[\"\']//g;
  
-    if ($file !~ m|^/var/log/| ) {
+    if ($file !~ m!^(?:/var/log/|\|)! ) {
 #      $errorcondition++;     # uncomment this if you prefer count of errors
       $errorcondition = 1;
       print "Wrong log file definition in $conf: $_" if $printerrorfile;