+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #400661 +++ Description of problem: Both the syslog-ng and rsyslog packages have the same logrotate configuration file, which causes logrotate to find duplicties for the system logs and refuses to rotate them. This may lead to a disk space exhaustion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): syslog-ng-2.0.5-1.fc8 rsyslog-1.19.6-3.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install both the loggers and watch the emails sent by logwatch -- you'll see something like this: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/messages error: found error in /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron , skipping Actual results: Logs are not rotated due to duplicite configurations. Expected results: Logs are rotated. Additional info:
Jose, do you agree to use "conflict: syslog-ng/rsyslog"? I'm fine with this solution.
fixed in rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8
Well, it should possibly add also obsoletes for syslog-ng. Otherwise if both packages are installed then an update to rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8 fails.
Oh, and this "conflict" makes syslog-ng package practically useless. Tons of packages depends on rsyslog so removing it is not feasible. It appear that a better coordination between these packages would be needed.