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Description of problem:

/etc/logrotate.d/httpd contains "delaycompress" to postpone compression of the rotated logs but it is missing the "compress" option which is required when using "delaycompress" as "man logrotate.conf" states:

    delaycompress
              Postpone compression of the previous log file to the next rotation cycle. This only has effect when used in combination with compress.  It  can be used when some program cannot be told to close its logfile and thus might continue writing to the previous log file for some time.


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

httpd-2.2.15-28.el6.centos.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install httpd
2. service httpd start
3. # generate logs
4. logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

Actual results:

Rotated files are not compressed


Expected results:

Rotated files are compressed with a delay.

Additional info:

# grep compress /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

This is not a bug.  If compress is enabled globally (administrator preference), delaycompress must also be used for httpd log files.  If compress is not enabled globally, it has no effect.