Bug 111553

Summary: logrotate: mailfirst and delaycompress do not work together
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ales Ledvinka <ledva>
Component: logrotateAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ales Ledvinka 2003-12-05 11:20:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
using mailfirst and delaycompress nothing is mailed.
an attemtpt to mail nonexistent file is made. (with compressed extension)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logrotate-3.6.5-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0.cat apachewebalizer
/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log {
        compress
        create 644 root root
#       copytruncate
        daily
        delaycompress
        ifempty
        mail root@localhost
        mailfirst
        nomissingok
        noolddir

        prerotate
        endscript

        postrotate
        endscript

        rotate 9
        size 1500M
        sharedscripts
        start 0
}
1.logrotate -f -s /tmp/stav /etc/logrotate.d/apachewebalizer
2.
3.


Actual Results:  logrotate -f -s /tmp/stav
/etc/logrotate.d/apachewebalizer
sh: line 1: /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log.0.gz: No such file or
directory
Failed to mail /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log.0.gz to root@localhost!


Expected Results:  probably best: mail access_log.1.gz


Additional info:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2003-12-17 21:11:26 UTC
I'm pretty sure I've seen this bug before and that it has been fixed
since 8.0. Please upgrade...