Bug 75891

Summary:	Space in filename corrupts logrotate state file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Hardin <johnh>
Component:	logrotate	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	srevivo
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Description John Hardin 2002-10-14 17:17:21 UTC

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Description of problem:

If the logrotate filespec matches a file with a space in its filename, the
logrotate state file will be rendered corrupt (unparseable?) and this error will
be logged:

  error: bad line 49 in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status

This apparently prevents other log files from being rotated, and can lead to
excessive use of disk space and unreasonably large log files.

Example: this occurred with the samba logrotate file where several samba users
have spaces in their computer's NetBIOS names, thus their samba log files have
embedded spaces.


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

logrotate-3.3.2-1

Is this fixed in a newer logrotate that we can use on RH6.2?


How reproducible:
Didn't try.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-12-10 18:29:15 UTC

That's a pretty old version of logrotate you're using. Please try the latest, and reopen if the 
problem persists. I know a fix was made related to filename quoting.