Bug#1000304: log rotation breaks silently on sysvinit based systems

[Michael Biebl]

On 21.11.21 08:06, Joerg Dorchain wrote:

Package: rsyslog
Version: 8.2110.0-3

Hello,

the file /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate, referenced in the postrotate section 
of
/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog, silently does nothing anymore on sysvinit based 
systems.

Non-rotated logs lead to disk full, data loss and unusable systems.

The SysV init script is no longer under the control of the rsyslog package. Which means, whoever controls the start of the rsyslog daemon should probably also manage its logrotation.

A grave functionality drop like this needs to be announced, e.g. in a 
NEWS.Debian file.

It's not a grave functionality drop.




Michael

Also sysvinit users account for less then 1%. Pestering the other 99% of users is not warranted If you want to use a basically unsupported configuration, that's fine. But that also means you have to deal with the consequences.

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