Description of problem: Logrotate produces the following error. error: skipping "/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tomcat6-6.0.32-17.fc16.noarch logrotate-3.8.0-3.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have the daily logrotate cron job run 2. Read the error message in email Actual results: Log doesn't get rotated. Expected results: Rotate the log Additional info: When adding " su tomcat tomcat" to /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat6, the error goes away. Bug 772591, bug 768355, and others report the same problem for other packages.
Still present in Fedora 17.
Package tomcat6 has been deprecated in Fedora 19 and later. I am closing this bug as WONTFIX. For more information why tomcat6 was deprecated see: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/918010 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/179847.html http://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1094
What does Fedora 19 have to do with this Fedora 17 issue? The fact that the package won't be around in the future doesn't mean it isn't broken now, in a perfectly valid and currently maintained Fedora release.
(In reply to comment #3) > What does Fedora 19 have to do with this Fedora 17 issue? The fact that the > package won't be around in the future doesn't mean it isn't broken now, in a > perfectly valid and currently maintained Fedora release. This bug was closed by mistake. My intent was to close bugs reported against Fedora 19 and later only.
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Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.