On April 10, 2014 2:57:49 PM EDT, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc> wrote: >On 2014-04-04 15:07:31 [+0200], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> Hi Scott, >Hi, > >> On 04.04.2014 14:44, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >You can manage your configuration exclusively through Debconf or >exclusively >> >through hand editing the files. Mixing the two methods can have bad >results. >> >The Debconf method has been supported since approximately forever >and I don't >> >think we should drop it. > >mixing is one thing. I more frightend about the growing amount of >possible test cases after adding test cases. But if you think it is >reasonable to keep this as it helps the user then be it. I though it >might clever to put an end to this. > >> Then let's keep it. Though we still have to something about the >LogRotate >> option needing dpkg-reconfigure of other packages. > >Please split the debconf stuff into the proper package. Have clamd, >freshclam and milter and each one can run under a separate user. That >means if you dpkg-reconfigure then you only switch its values. This >includes logrotate and we get the file recreated (properly). Same goes >for freshclam and milter. > >> >I do question the value of having clamav rotate its logs. I suspect >people are >> >getting double rotation sometimes due to both the package and system >logrotate >> >being active. I think we should pick one. >> > >> >I think it should be the system logrotate and the package option >should be disabled. >> >> This sounds reasonable. > >I agree, I prefer having one place (etc/logroate.d) to do the rotation. >However, the daemon will rotate the logfile (even if it disabled) if >the logfile >exceeds the configured size.
Unless the size is set to 0. We'd have to do that too. Scott K _______________________________________________ Pkg-clamav-devel mailing list Pkg-clamav-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-clamav-devel
