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Well, according to this reference to the debian package information, http://tinyurl.com/8enmjq, logrotate originated in Fedora/Redhat. It also has a list of original developers you could google. FreeBSD's logrotate, here: http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/sysutils/logrotate.html, has no notes on it's origin, but is about from the same time (1999) that debian obtained theirs. The fedora package info, here, https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/logrotate, appears to have a link to the current fedora developer. At this point I'd suggest reporting a bug through the distributions, probably all three of Novell (via OpenSUSE), Redhat (via Fedora) and Debian. Create a bug entry in each distro's bug track. If you provide a reproducible problem report, and especially a code patch that fixes it, it should be easy to get the fix in. - -- Pat Erik N Johnson wrote: > The man page I have claims to be part of 4th Berkeley Distribution > Manual Section 8. > > However the authors both have redhat e-mail addresses. > > Its inclusion in section 8 does more or less qualify it as 'system' > software, which in modern systems one CERTAINLY expects to store > sparse files efficiently. So I agree, this probably ought to be > brought to the attention of the package maintainers. Anybody know who > that would be? > > Erik Johnson > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Larry Ploetz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1/8/09 12:21 PM, Erik N Johnson wrote: >>> Does this failure to behave as one might hope perhaps constitute a bug >>> in a widely used admin utility? >>> >>> >> Hmmm...I think so, now that you mention it...at least, I know I'd prefer >> logrotate to keep sparse files sparse. >> >> - Larry >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkln8aQACgkQNObCqA8uBsxjYgCfRAT0jKx+mU+0PuUGwwyFlI0M wDIAnjfAvd9UTRq6qpUJ2rPhjlcvxkWa =puM5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
