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Bug 137676 - logsentry doesn't handle rotated log files
Summary: logsentry doesn't handle rotated log files
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2006-06-22 17:46 UTC by Gentoo User
Modified: 2006-11-16 23:19 UTC (History)
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Description Gentoo User 2006-06-22 17:46:39 UTC 
logtail.c in app-admin/logsentry-1.1.1 doesn't attempt to read the additional lines since it's last execution in any log files that have been rotated.  This could result in missed data related to notable events.

Recommendation: add intelligence to logtail.c to look for a rotated file (logfilename.0 or logfilename.1.gz, etc) if the file is smaller or has a different inode since last execution, and include it's contents (since last execution) in the output.
Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-28 02:51:32 UTC 
I fail to see the real security impact here.

Reassigning to bugwranglers since it has no maintainer.
Comment 3 Alex Howells (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-16 23:19:32 UTC 
Looks like an upstream issue, I'm afraid, and upstream is rather dead ;)

We'll shortly have a new developer onboard maintaining log monitoring / security packages - perhaps it might be feasible to use the stuff Debian has (1.2.50) ??

Resolving as 'not our problem', aka: upstream :)