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Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7.8-6
Severity: normal
compresscmd option is not operational
I get the following error when using it:
error: mylog:6 bad compress path "nice -n 10 lzma -9"
error: found error in /var/log/mylog.log , skipping
error: mylog:6 } expected
error: found error in file mylog, skipping
Following line causes this error:
compresscmd "nice -n 10 lzma -9"
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/logrotate.d
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Jan 25 2011 apt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Oct 16 2010 aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 Feb 25 2010 consolekit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Jun 29 2009 dirmngr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Jan 30 2011 dpkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146 Jan 31 2011 exim4-base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 Jan 31 2011 exim4-paniclog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217 Jun 29 2010 fail2ban
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Feb 12 22:32 kdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157 Nov 17 2010 pm-utils
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 Aug 9 2010 ppp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Jul 11 13:56 rsyslog
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500,
'stable-updates'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages logrotate depends on:
ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go
ii base-passwd 3.5.23 Debian base system master password
ii cron 3.0pl1-118 process scheduling daemon
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
Versions of packages logrotate recommends:
ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.5-1 feature-rich BSD mail(1)
logrotate suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:09:47AM +0300, Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky wrote:
> compresscmd option is not operational
> I get the following error when using it:
> error: mylog:6 bad compress path "nice -n 10 lzma -9"
> error: found error in /var/log/mylog.log , skipping
> error: mylog:6 } expected
> error: found error in file mylog, skipping
>
> Following line causes this error:
> compresscmd "nice -n 10 lzma -9"
You can't do that. "nice -n 10 lzma -9" does not exist as an
executable file on your path. There is no program with the name
"nice -n 10 lzma -9".
This is by design -- to avoid shell based attacks (eg. a logfile
called "access.log;rm -rf /;log.1").
compresscmd "xz"
uncompresscmd "unxz"
compressext "xz"
compressoptions "-9"
If you want to nice down the compress process, you might have "nicexz"
as an executable script in /usr/local/bin, containing
#!/bin/sh
nice -n 10 xz "$@"
and have your compresscmd be "nicexz". Please note the use of quoted $@.
(For the older lzma program you would use: compresscmd "lzma",
uncompresscmd "unlzma" and compressext "lzma". Similarly with bzip2,
which may be better for log files, you would use: compresscmd "bzip2",
uncompresscmd "unbzip2", compressoptions "--best" and compressext "bz2".)
I hope this helps.
--
Paul Martin <[email protected]>
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