Public bug reported:
- Install logrotate
- Run "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" ## The first logrotate run will generate the
statefile "var/lib/logrotate/status"
- Modify "/var/lib/logrotate/status" by removing the first line in order to
corrupt the file
- Re-run "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" and you will get something like this
"error: bad top line in state file /var/lib/logrotate/status" every time you
run logrotate
logrotate never recovers if the statefile is corrupted unless you remove
it or fix the corruption by hand.
System will eventually run out of disk space and crash.
** Affects: logrotate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
logrotate never recovers if the statefile is corrupted
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