Bug#399930: logrotation race condition with exim writing to logs

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:58:28PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:23:38AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:11:25PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> > > So there is absolutely no need for the create option in logrotate
> > 
> > Not having the logs created might break monitoring mechanisms.
> 
> Well it is kind of a choice between maybe breaking poorly written
> monitoring schemes (the lack of a log should merely be a hint to
> check deeper rather then be the be-all and end-all of ones decision
> making) and definately breaking the very system that they are meant
> to monitor.

I consider this race condition to be minor, since it obviously only
happens on very heavily loaded systems, which should have a competent
system admin around to isolate the issue. You are always free to
change the configuration yourself, /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base is a
dpkg-conffile.

This might as well be a logrotate bug which I plan to investigate in
due time.

Greetings
Marc

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