Hello Leo,
In /etc/rottlog/rc the line “extension="gz"” has for only effect to
expand
the meta-variable “@COMP_EXT”[0] which isn't used by default. For it to
be
appended to every rotated log file we need to add the line “storefile
@FILENAME.@COMP_EXT” to /etc/rottlog/weekly, which specify the
Currently, the rottlog service in %base-services creates old rotated
logs that are named like "messages.1", "messages.2", etc.
However, these files are compressed with gzip, and gzip refuses to
decompress them until you add '.gz' to the end of the filenames.
I think this should be happening by de