Re: bug #1008668: tomcat9: logrotated is not able to truncate catalina.out
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > What is the problem with logrotate? It happily rotates files owned
> > by anyone in Debian.
>
> Because in Ubuntu rsyslog drops privileges to `syslog` user.
> Therefore, the log files generated by rsyslog are owned by the
> `syslog` user. But tomcat9 logrotate configuration forces logrotate to
> become `tomcat` user, during rotation. Rsyslog fails to truncate the
> catalina.out file which has read/write permissions only for `syslog`
> user.
The logfiles from tomcat aren’t normally generated by rsyslog though,
they’re directly written by Java or via shell redirections.
Anyway, this is chiefly a *buntu issue and the proposed fix would
worsen the situation in Debian, so please try to get this solved
on the *buntu side.
bye,
//mirabilos
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