Your message dated Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:49:16 +0200 with message-id <CAJ2a_DdoYJY6BAmR4ud-ybaw7Jh4o14KH1=m33fo6qaxdq7...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line use ~/logrotate.status when not running as root? has caused the Debian Bug report #42908, regarding use ~/logrotate.status when not running as root? to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: logrotate Version: 3.2-6 Severity: wishlist It is likely that the only users with access to /var/lib is root. Would it be possible to make the default location for the logrotate.status the users home directory when not run as root? Another thought would be the addition of an option in the config file to specify the state file. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux portaloo 2.0.36 #1 Thu Jun 17 12:40:28 BST 1999 i586 Versions of packages logrotate depends on: ii cron 3.0pl1-51 management of regular background p ii libc6 2.1.2-0pre6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpopt0 1.3-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii mailx 1:8.1.1-10 A simple mail user agent. -- Configuration Files: /etc/logrotate.conf changed [not included] -- I consume, therefore I am
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--- Begin Message ---When using logrotate as non-root, one has to specify a custom configuration file, so adding the location of the statefile via an additional parameter should not be to hard. Best regards Christian Göttsche
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