Bug#987179: tomcat9: catalina.out created with root owner, then logrotate fails to process it

[Markus Koschany]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:13:50 +0200 Adam Cecile <acec...@le-vert.net> wrote:
> Package: tomcat9
> Version: 9.0.43-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just deployed 9 servers using Debian 11 and I have a rather serious issue
> with them.
> 
> root@debian11.server:~# ls -lah /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2.8G Apr 19 10:05 /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out
> 
> root@debian10.server:~# ls -lah /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out
> -rw-r----- 1 tomcat adm 1.3M Apr 19 10:05 /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out
> 
> As you can see, owner is incorrect.

Thanks for the report. I have changed the rsyslogd configuration for tomcat9 to
set the fileOwner explicitly instead of using the default configuration.

Before: rsyslog.d/tomcat9.conf

:programname, startswith, "tomcat9" {
  /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out;TomcatFormat
  stop
}


Now:

:programname, startswith, "tomcat9" {
  action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out"
Template="TomcatFormat" fileOwner="tomcat" fileCreateMode="0640")
  stop
}

This will only take effect when tomcat9 is installed for the first time or re-
installed though.

Regards,

Markus 

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