236193 – app-admin/logrotate should ignore symbolic links

Bug 236193 - app-admin/logrotate should ignore symbolic links

Summary: app-admin/logrotate should ignore symbolic links

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2008-08-30 10:31 UTC by Sven
Modified:	2009-03-10 02:15 UTC (History)
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Description Sven 2008-08-30 10:31:30 UTC

Hi,

i have some links in /var/log/apache2 and logrotate keeps and rotating them. That means for some symbolic link "mylink" it creates files like "mylink.1.gz" and the like.

I can't imagine any situation, where rotating symbolic links makes sense.

Please only rotate regular files and no links.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-10 02:15:29 UTC

This no longer appears to happen in 3.7.8