Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.1-3 - System information: # uname -a Linux correo 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 13 18:13:07 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 - Description: When you configure logrotate with mailfirst option and delaycompress, the program dont send the log to the specific email address, because it looks at for a .gz file, which doesnt exits (It hasn´t been compressed yet). It´s something about this in this closed bugreport: Refer: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186818 - Bug reprodution: * Edit /etc/logrotate.conf and add this lines with a real format email address: /var/log/mail.log { dateext mailfirst mail janzun.rosanegra dt rosanegra dt org missingok daily rotate 365 create compress delaycompress start 0 } * Executing logrotate you´ll see the error line: # logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf -f error: failed to open /var/log/mail.log-20081030.gz for mailing: No such file or directory Obviously file *gz doesnt exist because delaycompress is active and "yesterday" log isnt compressed. - Bad solution: Comment delaycompress directive, but i dont like this. - Temporary solution for me is to comment "mail" directive and run a tiny postrotate script like this: /var/log/mail.log { dateext # mailfirst # mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] missingok daily rotate 365 create compress delaycompress start 0 postrotate T_FILE="${1}-$(date +%Y%m%d)" bzip2 -k $T_FILE uuencode ${T_FILE}.bz2 ${T_FILE}.bz2 |mail -s "Mail log subject here" [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm ${T_FILE}.bz2 endscript } Its some different that the original function, because I have "yesterday" log decompressed in the system but compressed in backup email, and archive.log is adjunted, not printed in body message. - For a real and origin function reproduction, it should be: # Script postrotate T_FILE="${1}-$(date +%Y%m%d)" echo $T_FILE |mail -s "Mail log subject here" [EMAIL PROTECTED] endscript # /Script Thank you very much for your effor maintaining this package, and sorry for my english. Regards, Jesús Feliz Fernández. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
