Bug 115320 – net-ftp/vsftpd needs an entry in logrotate.d

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description rhumbliner 2005-12-12 09:03:42 UTC]

it appears that vsftpd has no option in it's configuration file to limit the
size of it's log file.  therefore it's ebuild should probably create the file
/etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd with something like this:

/var/log/vsftpd.log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
  /etc/init.d/vsftpd reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
  endscript
}


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-12-12 09:54:16 UTC]

Here's my setup for logrotate.d/syslog-ng  
  
/var/log/messages /var/log/debug /var/log*log {  
   sharedscripts  
   postrotate  
      /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true  
   endscript  
}  
  
That also works with vsftpds log file and is not vsftpd specific.  
  
I don't see any reason why vsftpd should install a file in logrotate.d myself.  
Re-open if you disagree. 

[Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2006-01-09 23:20:02 UTC]

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[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2006-01-09 23:20:35 UTC]

Added a logrotate script in vsftpd-2.0.4 handled by a logrotate USE flag.