Bug 3916

Summary:	postrotate executes each time a wildcard is matched
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	astrope
Component:	logrotate	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	astrope
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Description astrope 1999-07-06 15:03:04 UTC

When using wildcards in logrotate scripts such as /home/*/logs/access_log, the postrotate commands get executed each time the wildcard is matched, rather than executing once after the loop is finished. This has adverse effects on apache, especially when used with mod_ssl with virtual domains and certificates need to be reread and random bits regenerated. The killall -HUP httpd postrotate sometimes causes apache to die when many are sent in a short time.

Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 1999-07-30 16:03:59 UTC

Reformatted to have line breaks to be easier to read:

When using wildcards in logrotate scripts such as
/home/*/logs/access_log, the postrotate commands get executed
each time the wildcard is matched, rather than executing once
after the loop is finished. This has adverse effects on apache,
especially when used with mod_ssl with virtual domains and
certificates need to be reread and random bits regenerated. The
killall -HUP httpd postrotate sometimes causes apache to die
when many are sent in a short time.

Comment 2 Erik Troan 2000-07-13 16:33:39 UTC

logrotate-3.4 allows you to specify "sharedscripts", which will cause the
scripts to be
executed exactly once.