Your message dated Sat, 11 May 2013 10:05:52 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#707655: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #48326, regarding syslogd-listfiles prevents automated post-processing of logs (again) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-33 several problems and suggestions in one bug report: 1. --ignore-size option should be default behaviour current behaviour of syslogd-listfiles makes it difficult to automate post-processing of rotated logfiles because it is not possible to accurately predict exactly when a given logfile will be rotated. this breaks several local cron scripts which depend on the old behaviour of the sysklogd package where logfiles were rotated at specific times (i.e. either daily or weekly or monthly) and not seemingly at random. 2. the --ignore-size option is not documented in the manpage. it's existence is only evident by examine the /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles perl script. 3. 2MB is arbitrarily small size to base rotation on. size-based rotation should not only be optional, it should be configurable. i.e. the '--ignore-size' option should be replaced with a '--max-size nnn' option where 'nnn' is size in MB. 4. if, for some reason, you do not wish to change the default behaviour of syslogd-listfiles to something sensible then syslogd-listfiles needs a config file so that a system admin can safely upgrade the sysklogd package without having to remember to hack /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles every time to remove the annoying 2MB size check. e.g. /etc/syslogd-listfiles.conf could contain a line like: --max-size 2 for current broken behaviour, or: --max-size 0 to disable size-based rotation entirely. 5. as a general comment, it seems that planning and co-ordination is required between the sysklogd and logrotate packages. logrotate seems to be usurping the log-rotation functionality of sysklogd (and other packages). without proper co-ordination, both packages will rotate the same logfiles leading to annoying problems (as logrotate has caused with the wtmp file). it may be a good thing for sysklogd to leave all log rotation to the logrotate package, which at least allows the end-user to set rotation schedules according to their own needs. craig -- craig sanders
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1.5-6.2+rm Dear submitter, as the package sysklogd has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/707655 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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