Bug 52672 – dcron does not provide logrotate snippet

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description BlueRaven 2004-06-01 03:28:57 UTC]

I noticed that dcron does not insert a snippet in /etc/logrotate.d in order to have /var/log/cron.log automatically rotated.
I think it would be important to provide one, since an evergrowing logfile could fill all the available space, possibly with weird effects if /var or /var/log is not on its own partition.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-10-05 06:02:22 UTC]

i dont know anything about logrotate ... i use metalog so this has never been an issue :)

please post a sample config file and i'll gladly add it to dcron

[Comment 2 BlueRaven 2004-10-10 08:42:38 UTC]

Created attachment 41462 [details]
Logrotate snippet for dcron

This is the sample config file you asked me for. :-)

[Comment 3 BlueRaven 2004-10-10 08:44:38 UTC]

Hi there, I am reopening the bug just to provide the requested logrotate snippet for dcron.
Hope it will be included soon and the bug definitely closed. :-)

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-10 17:56:07 UTC]

will do :)

[Comment 5 BlueRaven 2004-10-19 02:01:05 UTC]

Comment on attachment 41462 [details]
Logrotate snippet for dcron

># dcron logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
># contributed by BlueRaven
>#
>
>/var/log/cron.log {
>}

[Comment 6 BlueRaven 2004-10-19 02:03:52 UTC]

Hi, my proposed snippet was wrong... dcron keeps file descriptors always open, so using logrotate's "create" instruction breaks functionality.
Please find an updated snippet in the previous comment, sorry for any inconvenience.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-11-07 22:47:48 UTC]

so all the file has to contain is this ?

/var/log/cron.log {
}

[Comment 8 BlueRaven 2004-11-09 05:02:57 UTC]

Well, in fact no... I noticed it was not working, too.
Please accept my apologizes, my pusher is decreasing his quality standards. ;-)
After some RTFM, I found out a working configuration:

/var/log/cron.log {
             copytruncate
}

The "copytruncate" directive is necessary in order to keep the same file inode.

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2004-11-09 21:06:34 UTC]

so i add that little snippet to 'files/dcron.logrotate' and then i add this to the ebuild:
    insinto /etc/logrotate.d
    newins ${FILESDIR}/dcron.logrotate dcron

and that should be enough ? (sorry, but ive never used logrotate before)

[Comment 10 BlueRaven 2004-11-10 08:49:02 UTC]

Yes, that's enough! :-)

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2004-11-10 16:41:52 UTC]

added to cvs, thanks :)