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Bug 208538

Summary:	Logrotate missing dateext, maxage
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Nils Jeppe <nils>
Component:	logrotate	Assignee:	Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.3	CC:	david, mmalik, srevivo
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2008-0703	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2008-07-24 19:51:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Nils Jeppe 2006-09-29 09:30:10 UTC

Description of problem:

RedHat logrotate does not handle maxage and especially dateext configuration
parameters. This is causing some problems; for once it's harder to script. But
much more serious is that every rotation cycle the log files change name. This
makes an incremental backup of rotated logfiles impossible. Finally, the missing
parameters cause cross-distribution compatibility problems with standard
logrotate configurations.

Comment 3 David Anderson 2007-03-16 07:33:50 UTC

I would like to see this in RHEL4 too, for the same reasons (particularly 
incremental backups).

Comment 4 carle_menard 2007-05-18 17:33:38 UTC

Same here.  Really can`t figure out why this option was removed as it`s a
cruscial part of logrotate.  Why remove features?

Comment 5 Philipp Schwarzhuber 2007-05-25 10:51:05 UTC

We are experiencing the same and can confirm the report.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-24 19:51:59 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0703.html