Date: 28 Apr 2003 20:41:17 -0000 From: Peter Grimshaw <peter@tesseract.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/51519: newsyslog handles bzip2-compressed files incorrectly Message-ID: <20030428204117.1428.qmail@tesseract.demon.co.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <200304282050.h3SKoCdp084657@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 51519 >Category: bin >Synopsis: newsyslog handles bzip2-compressed files incorrectly >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 28 13:50:11 PDT 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Grimshaw >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: N/A >Environment: System: FreeBSD tesseract.demon.co.uk 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Mar 7 15:46:41 GMT 2003 peter@tesseract.demon.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESSERACT i386 >Description: Function age_old_log in /usr/src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c does not check for a .bz2 file name suffix on the old log file name. This causes time-based rotation of bzip2-compressed log files to work incorrectly - a new log is started each time newsyslog is run. >How-To-Repeat: In /etc/newsyslog.conf specify a 'when' value of, say, 168 and a '[ZJB]' value of J. This causes newsyslog to unconditionally start a new log file, rather than weekly as you would expect. >Fix: Make function age_old_log also check for a .bz2 suffix on the old log file name. A workaround is to switch to gzip compression for old log files. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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