tag 285871 + unreproducible moreinfo
retitle 285871 xdm: logrotate script eats logs
thanks
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:40:00AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 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.
I've never seen this behavior.
> That's the worst logrotate file I've seen in quite a while.
What looks wrong with it?
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xfree86/trunk/debian/xdm.logrotate
/var/log/xdm.log {
notifempty
missingok
}
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