Bug#795341: nosharedscripts postrotate: argument passed is now the logfile without extension

2018-08-22 Thread Christian Göttsche
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi, the manpage logrotate.conf says: postrotate/endscript The lines between postrotate and endscript (both of which must appear on lines by themselves) are executed (using /bin/sh) after the log file is rotated. These directives may onl

Bug#795341: nosharedscripts postrotate: argument passed is now the logfile without extension

2015-08-12 Thread Paul Slootman
Package: logrotate Version: 3.8.7-2 Severity: important Hi, After upgrading from 3.8.1-4 to 3.8.7-1 (and -2) the argument passed to the postrotate script is the base logfile name, i.e. without the extension. This is a distinct change from the behaviour in the old version. I use this to run some