Public bug reported:
With the latest update to logrotate (3.8.7-1ubuntu1), the group
ownership of /var/log was changed to "syslog" causing this kind of
problem:
# logrotate -df /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
Handling 2 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/syslog
forced from command line (7 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/syslog
error: skipping "/var/log/syslog" 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 for rotation.
...
# ls -la /var/ | grep log
drwxrwxr-x 17 root syslog 4096 Feb 9 10:58 log
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy logrotate
logrotate:
Installed: 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.8.7-1ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.27-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Feb 9 17:19:41 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-26 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140124)
SourcePackage: logrotate
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: logrotate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
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Title:
logrotate skip the rotation of many files under /var/log due to bad
group ownership
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