From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 13:50:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A1637B476 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602A143FBF for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3SKoCUp084658 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3SKoCdp084657; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200304282050.h3SKoCdp084657@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Peter Grimshaw Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F86D37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.demon.co.uk (tesseract.demon.co.uk [194.222.237.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A93B43F75 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@tesseract.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1429 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Apr 2003 20:41:17 -0000 Message-Id: <20030428204117.1428.qmail@tesseract.demon.co.uk> Date: 28 Apr 2003 20:41:17 -0000 From: Peter Grimshaw To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: bin/51519: newsyslog handles bzip2-compressed files incorrectly X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Peter Grimshaw List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:50:13 -0000 >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: