Bug 82808 - olddir directive broken (or changed?)
Summary: olddir directive broken (or changed?)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: logrotate
Version: phoebe
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-27 03:11 UTC by James Ralston
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:03 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-02-18 05:29:22 UTC
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Description James Ralston 2003-01-27 03:11:10 UTC
Description of problem:

The "olddir" directive appears to be broken.  Specifically, the olddir option
now seems to be interpreted relative to the directory which contains the logfile
being processed.  (The previous behavior was that olddir specified an absolute
directory.)

If this is an intentional change, then please update the documentation (i.e.,
the man page) to reflect the change.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

logwatch-4.3.1-1

How reproducible:

Replace the contents of /etc/logrotate.d/rpm with this:

    /var/log/rpmpkgs {
        daily
        notifempty
        missingok
        rotate 7
        olddir /var/log/OLD
        nocompress
        sharedscripts
    }

Then run:

    /usr/sbin/logrotate --debug=100 /etc/logrotate.conf

Actual results:

error: rpm:9 error verifying olddir path /var/log//var/log/OLD: No such file or
directory

Expected results:

Logrotate puts the rotated log files in /var/log/OLD.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2003-01-29 14:52:27 UTC
What logrotate version are you running (logrotate, not logwatch)?

Comment 2 James Ralston 2003-01-31 07:30:48 UTC
Argh... I apologize for my inability to differentiate LOGWATCH from LOGROTATE. 
(This isn't the first time...)

$ rpm -qa | grep -i ^log | sort
logrotate-3.6.6-1
logwatch-4.3.1-1


Comment 3 James Ralston 2003-02-18 05:29:22 UTC
I grabbed logrotate-3.6.8-1 from Rawhide, and this bug is fixed; the olddir
directive is correctly interpreted as an absolute path (the same as previous
versions).  Danke; I'm closing this report.



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