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Bug#285871: xdm logrotate script eats logs



Package: xdm
Severity: important

/etc/logrotate.d/xdm manages to delete the /var/log/xdm.log currently
in use, and never signals xdm to reopen its log file. Since xdm
usually stays running for weeks at a time, and the log is 'rotated'
daily, this means that most of the time xdm is writing to a deleted
file. Which is less than helpful.

That's the worst logrotate file I've seen in quite a while.

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