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Log file names that contain whitespace are stored without quotes in the logrotate.status file, like this: /var/log/by machine/this log file contains spaces 1999-11-24 which does not constitute a valid status-file entry by logrotates own standards ;-) and breaks further rotation runs. The abovementioned log files was entered in the logrotate.conf as "/var/log/by machine/..." and logrotate did parse that.
Note that spaces can also crop up if you say /var/log/samba/* for example, because some machines have spaces in their names. The following patch is a (pretty bad, actually) way to fix it. It changes the format of the logrotate.status file so that the filename is on a line by itself so that it can read by a pair of fgets() instead of just one. A better way would probably be something like URL-encoding the filename instead. It will also now print out the line number in the "line too long" error. Since this changes the format, the old /var/lib/logrotate.status file will need to be removed or translated. --- logrotate-3.3.2.orig/logrotate.c Wed Jun 16 16:44:07 1999 +++ logrotate-3.3.2/logrotate.c Sat May 13 13:05:54 2000 @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ fprintf(f, "logrotate state -- version 1\n"); for (i = 0; i < numStates; i++) { - fprintf(f, "%s %d-%d-%d\n", states[i].fn, + fprintf(f, "%s\n%d-%d-%d\n", states[i].fn, states[i].lastRotated.tm_year + 1900, states[i].lastRotated.tm_mon + 1, states[i].lastRotated.tm_mday); @@ -717,19 +717,23 @@ line++; - while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, f)) { + while (fgets(buf2, sizeof(buf2) - 1, f)) { line++; - i = strlen(buf); - if (buf[i - 1] != '\n') { - message(MESS_ERROR, "line too long in state file %s\n", - stateFilename); + i = strlen(buf2); + if (buf2[i - 1] != '\n') { + message(MESS_ERROR, "line %d too long in state file %s\n", + line, stateFilename); fclose(f); return 1; } + buf2[i-1] = '\0'; if (i == 1) continue; - if (sscanf(buf, "%s %d-%d-%d\n", buf2, &year, &month, &day) != 4) { + fgets(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, f); + line++; + + if (sscanf(buf, "%d-%d-%d\n", &year, &month, &day) != 3) { message(MESS_ERROR, "bad line %d in state file %s\n", line, stateFilename); fclose(f);
*** Bug 11654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is (finally) fixed in logrotate 3.4, which will show up in rawhide soon.