Bug#739740: logrotate: Erroneous error messages when /var/log is tmpfs

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Martin
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 08:35:51AM +0100, Reiner Buehl wrote: error: skipping /var/log/cron.log because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not root) Set su directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used

Bug#739740: logrotate: Erroneous error messages when /var/log is tmpfs

2014-02-22 Thread Reiner Bühl
According to ls it is mounted 755, that is what was confusing me: reiner@weather:/var$ ls -ld /var/log drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 22 06:25 /var/log Thats why I think the error message is wrong. Am I missing something? Am 22.02.2014 13:09, schrieb Paul Martin: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at

Bug#739740: logrotate: Erroneous error messages when /var/log is tmpfs

2014-02-21 Thread Reiner Buehl
Package: logrotate Version: 3.8.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when running logrotate on a system that uses tmpfs for /var/log, logrotate creates erroneous error messages of the following form: error: skipping /var/log/cron.log because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's