Public bug reported:
Hi,
/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
/usr/share/rsyslog/50-default.conf
contains
#
# Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
#mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
#mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err
and thus it creates /var/log/mail.err , and, if admin uncomments as proposed,
mail.info and mail.warn, but
/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
rotates only /var/log/mail.log
and thus keeps mail.err (and, if uncommented, mail.info and mail.warn)
forever, it never gets rotated.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: rsyslog 8.2312.0-3ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-101.101-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-101-generic aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: aarch64
CloudID: hetzner
CloudName: hetzner
CloudPlatform: hetzner
CloudSubPlatform: unknown
Date: Sun Mar 1 19:41:04 2026
SourcePackage: rsyslog
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug arm64 noble
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rsyslog lacks logrotate for /var/log/mail.err
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