Bug 461451 - Inappropriate logrotate configuration for salinfo
Summary: Inappropriate logrotate configuration for salinfo
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: salinfo
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Prarit Bhargava
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Reported: 2008-09-08 03:29 UTC by Tim Potter
Modified: 2018-10-27 12:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-09 14:33:21 UTC
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Description Tim Potter 2008-09-08 03:29:33 UTC
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The salinfo package comes with some configuration for logrotate which is inappropriate and unnecessary.  The salinfo daemon creates files (basically timestamped firmware error records) with unique filenames so rotation is not required.

Treating the files in /var/log/salinfo/{decoded,raw} as logs results in zero length files being created where data is expected, with the originals being moved to a subdirectory with .1 appended to the filename.  Management applications expect the SAL error records to remain in the /var/log/salinfo directory until deleted by an administrator.

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Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2009-12-09 14:33:21 UTC
Closing.  No customer has complained about this issue and it is unlikely we'll issue a fix.

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