Bug 85654

Summary: remove /etc/logrotate.d/apache it is dangerous
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Neil Prockter <prockter>
Component: apacheAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 7.3CC: jorton
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Fixed In Version: 2.0.45-4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Neil Prockter 2003-03-05 16:20:17 UTC
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Description of problem:
/etc/logrotate.d/apache should (IMO) be dropped.

restarting apache is something I want to be in control of

To rotate my logs I use
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs <logfile> 86400" vhost

If I change my httpd.conf I want to apply it when I'm ready

NOT BEFORE

why do you want to use logrotate? whats wrong with rotatelogs ( and not
restarting apache all the time)

do I have to set a cron job to delete /etc/logrotate.d/apache ?  can I tell
rpm/up2date to ignire this file? can I set my system to run a script everytime
rpm/up2date runs (so I can put  'rm /etc/logrotate.d/apache' in it)

3 times in the past year I've had a server outage thanks to
/etc/logrotate.d/apache. I might as well put it in my login script!



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use rpr or up2date
2. use apache
3. use logrotate
    

Actual Results:  buggers up apache

Expected Results:  leave apache alone

Additional info:

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2003-04-03 15:30:23 UTC
We should mark logrotate.d/apache as %config(noreplace), so that you make it an
empty file (or comment out the conents), and it won't be overwritten on
upgrades.  Thanks for the report.


Comment 2 Joe Orton 2003-05-19 12:36:03 UTC
/etc/logrotate.d/httpd is now marked config(noreplace) in httpd-2.0.45-4, so you
can make this an empty file and prevent your logs getting rotated.

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2004-02-06 17:20:52 UTC
This is fixed in current releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Fedora Core.