Re: 9 Debian patches for inclusion

Mike Tremaine wrote:

> Interesting...
> 
> I guess this is the bug report
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536472
> 
> The issue seems to be that logrotate gzips the file before logwatch gets
> to it? Under RH/Fedora  et al the cron is always labled 0logwatch is it
> fires first. When I set crons by hand I make sure it runs before any
> rotation so the question is what to do with an issue that is really
> mis-configuration.??

Hi!

Yes, that's the bug report. The problem is that logwatch only expects 
logfiles to be compressed if they were declared via Archive, not via 
Logfile. My hack moves compressed logfiles to archives, which works as 
$Config{archives} is on by default. The proper way to handle this would 
probably be to first collect all filenames (as specified Logfiles plus 
Archives if selected), sort them, apply unique filter and then decide 
whether decompressing is required, but such a change would require bigger 
changes. 
 
WM


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