Description of problem: After upgrading from Release 23 to 24, the logrotate daily cron job does verbose logging by default. This results in many syslog messages that convey little information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The fix is to remove the '-l syslog' option: diff -u logrotate~ logrotate --- logrotate~ 2016-02-16 04:12:07.000000000 -0500 +++ logrotate 2016-07-19 08:23:01.003331245 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #!/bin/sh -/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status -l syslog /etc/logrotate.conf +/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status /etc/logrotate.conf EXITVALUE=$? if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
This is basically a duplicate of bug #1304828. I agree this is annoying and will revert the change as you suggest. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1304828 ***