Re: sysklogd steps on logrotate's foot

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> Fellow Developers,
> 
> When logrotate is installed, the administrator has no easy and
> permanent way of stopping sysklogd cron jobs to rotate logs using
> savelog.  In such a situation, logs are going to be rotated in a
> flip-flip fashion by both mechanisms.  This is a Bad Thing(tm).

Err... why is logrotate touching logfiles "owned" by sysklogd?
A package must not touch other packages' files.

Regards,

	Joey

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