Bug 638629

Summary: Ambiguity in logrotate man page (definition of "size" parameter)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Component: logrotateAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan Kaluža 2010-09-29 14:34:02 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #638591 +++

The definition of "size" parameter is ambiguous.

It is defined as :
"Log files are rotated when they grow bigger then size bytes."

It appears the the behaviour is :
"Log files are rotated only if they grow bigger then size bytes."


First definition does not mean that if the file size is below _size_ bytes, it won't be rotated.
Second definition means that if the file size is below _size_ bytes, it won't be rotated.

I find the second definition less confusing and closer to the actual behaviour of logrotate.

I think that the "minsize" parameter may also benefit from a disambiguation.
Comment 1 Jan Kaluža 2010-09-29 15:02:34 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide.