Bug#923795: /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7: compresses “live” logfiles

2020-01-15 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, Am 15.01.20 um 18:10 schrieb Sylvain Beucler: > Hello Thorsten, > > I'm working on a tomcat7 security-only update, and checking the pending > bugs. > > /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7 uses the "copytruncate" method, which normally > should handle this situation, where it's not possible/wanted to

Bug#923795: /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7: compresses “live” logfiles

2020-01-15 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hello Thorsten, I'm working on a tomcat7 security-only update, and checking the pending bugs. /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7 uses the "copytruncate" method, which normally should handle this situation, where it's not possible/wanted to restart the server, and there's "a very small time slice between

Bug#923795: /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7: compresses “live” logfiles

2019-03-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: tomcat7 Version: 7.0.56-3+really7.0.91-1 Severity: important /etc/cron.daily/tomcat7 compresses logfiles that are still “live” and just happen to not have been written to for a day. The next write to the still-opened logfile will go to nirvana, and furthermore, the second run fails