Bug 1131909

Summary:	[RFE] Preserve client and server installation logs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jiri Belka <jbelka>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	mkosek, pasik, pvoborni, rcritten
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Description Jiri Belka 2014-08-20 09:24:10 UTC

Description of problem:
ipaclient-install.log is overwritten with every command execution, this seems odd. it should either append or create a log with timestamp in filename.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-client-3.3.3-28.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run ipa-client-install
2. run again
3.

Actual results:
logged data about first run are lost

Expected results:
logged data should be kept

Additional info:

Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2014-08-20 10:41:55 UTC

Client and Server install behaves this way on purpose. For the server it makes sense because the log has about 40M and if you are testing many installations on one machine, you could quickly run out of disk space.

But it is a reasonable RFE that should be considered upstream. I will create an upstream ticket.

Comment 3 Martin Kosek 2014-08-20 10:43:08 UTC

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4501

Comment 6 Petr Vobornik 2016-03-17 15:32:06 UTC

update: is not planned to be implemented in FreeIPA 4.4. Maybe it will be in 4.5.

Comment 9 Rob Crittenden 2018-12-05 19:57:46 UTC

Thank you taking your time and submitting this request for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The request was cloned to the upstream tracker a long time ago (see link to the upstream ticket above), but it was unfortunately not given priority either in the upstream project, nor in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Given that this request is not planned for a close release, it is highly unlikely it will be fixed in this major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are therefore closing the request as WONTFIX.

To request that Red Hat reconsiders the decision, please reopen the Bugzilla with the help of Red Hat Customer Service and provide additional business and/or technical details about it's importance to you. Please note that you can still track this request or even offer help in the referred upstream Pagure ticket to expedite the solution.