Bug 232830 – /var/log/rpmpkgs occasionally gets zerored out

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Bug 232830 - /var/log/rpmpkgs occasionally gets zerored out

Summary:	/var/log/rpmpkgs occasionally gets zerored out

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Panu Matilainen
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Reported:	2007-03-18 11:04 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-08-09 15:36:27 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2007-03-18 11:04:28 EDT

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 14:35:13 EDT

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 15:36:27 EDT

rpm.org script rewritten to avoid truncating the log in case of errors.

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