Hi Rainer, thanks for your feedback!
On 26.09.2012 18:48, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> As for the implementation, using the same uid/gid as Ubuntu (which has >> been using this feature for while) seems reasonable. > > You need to be aware that other packages, most importantly logrotate, need to > be modified. The Ubuntu setup is notoriously known to break things, > especially when users work with dynafiles. There is at least one complaint > ever two month on the rsyslog mailing list and there are some long-standing > bugs reported to Ubuntu (sorry, I don't have the bug tracker ID at hand). Yeah, as I wrote, logrotate is something which needs to be checked. > Note that pre-v6 rsyslog engines do NOT have solid support for dropping > privileges. So you need to test things very carefully if you use pre-v6. Good to know. I don't plan to have this feature for wheezy anyway (which will contain 5.8.x) but do that earliest in wheezy+1 where I will update rsyslog to a more current version, probably 7.x. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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