There is a relevant bug report against logrotate: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656060
I generally agree with the bug, but in practice u-u's logs compress well and in compressed form take one block: $ du -sh /var/log/unattended-upgrades/* 16K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.1.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.2.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.3.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.4.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.5.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.6.gz 0 /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log.1.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log.2.gz 24K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.1.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.2.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.3.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.4.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.5.gz 4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log.6.gz If logrotate switches to detect the need for compression automatically, I will stop overriding that in the package. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #656060 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656060 ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Opinion ** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840333 Title: /etc/logrotate.d/unattended-upgrades should not have compress option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/840333/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
