On Tue, 4 Jul 2023, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi folks,what is the recommended way to override logrotate.timer from a metapackage to get hourly logfile rotation (depending on size and age of the logfile, as usual)? I had added etc/systemd/system/logrotate.timer.d/hourly.conf
I'm not exactly clear what you're doing but I guess you're creating a package that provides the config file? Sticking config files in packages can be problematic when it comes to upgrades. I do it a lot, in particular it makes it much easier to change the config across lots of machines, but doing it all "properly" in the face of local edits isn't easy. Others would probably say use ansible (or something like that) but it works for me.
to the package install file, but at upgrade time it complained that nobody ran systemctl daemon-reload. Ain't this the job of the DEBHELPER macro in the postinst script?
Once your package is installed, what does the postinst script look like?
Should this file be installed in /lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer.d instead, using dh_installsystemd ?
Assuming you are creating a package and you want to share it with possible local edits in /etc then this would be the way to go. If, like me, you're using a package in place of manually editing then /etc is more likely the right place.
Every insightful is highly appreciated Harri
