Bug 64725

Summary:	olddir used for some logs where it shouldn't
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Peter Surda <shurdeek>
Component:	logrotate	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Peter Surda 2002-05-10 03:30:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
I tried to put rotated httpd logs (defined in /etc/logrotate.d/apache and
/etc/logrotate.d/apache.virtual_hosts) into a separate directory,
/var/log/httpd/old. So basically I put "olddir /var/log/httpd/old" into those 2
files. Unfortunately this setting is somehow kept in places where it shouldn't
because some (not all) other rotated logs, e.g. xferlog, wtmp, up2date, but not
messages or secure, are moved into that directory as well. I tried to fix the
bug myself but I'm too tired. RH 6.2 exhibits the same behaviour BTW.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use olddir inside one of the files in /etc/logrotate.d directory
2. w8 a couple of days
3. some logs will appear in wrong place


Expected Results:  only specified logs should be there, not the other ones

Additional info:

Well I don't see from the code where it is triggered, searched for almost an
hour :-(. This is the 3rd time I'm posting a bug report via bugzilla, hopefully
this time it actually gets fixed. Did I mention I humbly paid my 60$ RHN fee
this year? :-)

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-05-10 14:56:16 UTC

logrotate is designed (for or better or worse) to read its configs by doing
something like 'cat /etc/logrotate.conf /etc/logrotate.d/*'. This means that one
config file influences the operation across the board - you need to reset olddir
at the end of the config file where you modify it.