On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:59:55PM +0100, Tim Small wrote:
> This patch also introduces a corresponding logrotation configuration file for
> the newly created log file. It's difficult to know what these
> defaults should be, as firewall log quantities will vary a lot between sites
> and machines. This file will at least replicate the status-quo (i.e.
> it is the same as the default config for /var/log/messages).
>
> *** /tmp/fwlogrotate
> --- /dev/null 2008-10-18 15:24:00.515817246 +0100
> +++ /etc/logrotate.d/arno-iptables-firewall 2008-10-23 13:44:21.000000000
> +0100
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +/var/log/firewall
> +{
> + rotate 4
> + weekly
> + missingok
> + notifempty
> + compress
> + delaycompress
> + sharedscripts
> + postrotate
> + invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload > /dev/null
> + endscript
> +}
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to rename /var/log/firewall into
/var/log/arno-iptables-firewall (or something else less general). Not
sure if other packages also try to manage that file, but I guess in this
general config it is looking for trouble.
Thanks,
Michael
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