Description of problem: The rpm for tomcat contains /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out in its manifest. Each time the tomcat package is updated, rpm replaces the catalina.out log with the mostly-empty file from the package. All logs in catalina.out are lost in the process. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All versions since commit 3cb34c71 (tomcat-6.0.32-1) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install an old version of tomcat 2. Create logs in /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out 3. yum upgrade tomcat Actual results: catalina.out is clobbered, and the logs are lost. Expected results: Not this. Additional info: I recommend dropping catalina.out from the manifest. Since it is a log file, and should initially be empty, we don't want rpm to manage its contents. Likewise, we don't care about tracking its metadata since we are using the /var/log/tomcat directory to control access to the tomcat log files. I am not sure why we are putting the "tomcat-X.Y.Z RPM installed" message in catalina.out; it seems like something that belongs in a system log, not an application log. If we really need to keep that message around, we should add it with something like runuser -s /bin/bash -c '/bin/echo "%{name}-%{major_version}.%{minor_version}.%{micro_version} RPM installed" >> %{logdir}/catalina.out' from the %post script.
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