Bug 232830 - /var/log/rpmpkgs occasionally gets zerored out
Summary: /var/log/rpmpkgs occasionally gets zerored out
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
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Reported: 2007-03-18 15:04 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-08-09 19:36:27 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2007-03-18 15:04:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
I have noticed that occasionally the file /var/log/rpmpkgs gets truncated to
zero length.

The file can be restored by either running /etc/cron.daily/rpm directly or
waiting until it gets run automatically the next day.

This seems to happen randomly so I am not (yet) sure what precipitates this.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2007-03-18 18:35:13 UTC 
Nothing except the cron script touches /var/log/rpmpkgs. Rewrite the
cron script to write to temp file, and mv to rpmpkgs iff the query succeeds,
if you really care.

WORKSFORME.
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2007-08-09 19:36:27 UTC 
rpm.org script rewritten to avoid truncating the log in case of errors.
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