Bug 117844
| Summary: | Please add section to logrotate.conf for "/var/log/btmp" | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Need Real Name <vader> |
| Component: | logrotate | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | thoron |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-12-13 12:36:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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What program creates by default /var/log/btmp file? None that I know of, which is why I said "If the sysadmin creates /var/log/btmp." If he does so, login(1) will keep writing to the same file and it will never be rotated. IMHO it would be a good idea for the OS installer to "touch" the file (mode 0400), but maybe that is a separate issue for the 'setup' package? |
Description of problem: If the sysadmin creates /var/log/btmp (bad logins file), it will never get rotated by default. IMHO, it would be good to add the following to the default /etc/logrotate.conf: /var/log/btmp { missingok monthly create 0400 root root (or 0440 root wheel) rotate 1 } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): logrotate-3.6.10-1 Thanks.