[Pkg-freeradius-maintainers] Bug#872158: Bug#872158: logrotate config file overrides global options for other log files

[Michael Stapelberg]

control: tags -1 + pending

Thanks for the detailed report. I uploaded a fix.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Justin Pasher <justinp at distribion.com>
wrote:

> Package: freeradius
> Version: 3.0.12+dfsg-5+deb9u1
>
> The logrotate config file that ships with freeradius sets global options
> in its file (/etc/logrotate.d/freeradius). These options do not just apply
> to the freeradius log files, but to all log files that logrotate encounters
> after processing /etc/logrotate.d/freeradius (e.g. other logs defined in
> /etc/logrotate.d with a filename that come later alphabetically). You can
> verify this by making a modification tothe global options
> in/etc/logrotate.d/freeradius(such as adding"maxsize 1k"), then running
> logrotate in debug mode:
>
> logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf
>
> If you look at the output, you'll notice that all logs files encountered
> after the freeradius log files now have the"maxsize 1k" applied to them
> even if they didn't define it themselves. The global options set within
> /etc/logrotate.d/freeradius are not just global options for the log files
> defined in that file; they are system wide. To avoid conflicting with other
> log file definitions, the options need to be duplicated for each log file.
> You could also just group together everything but radius.log if you wanted
> to avoid a bunch of duplication.
>
> /var/log/freeradius/radius.log {
> daily
> rotate 52
> missingok
> compress
> delaycompress
> notifempty
>     copytruncate
> }
>
> /var/log/freeradius/checkrad.log /var/log/freeradius/radwatch.log
> /var/log/freeradius/radutmp /var/log/freeradius/radwtmp
> /var/log/freeradius/sqllog.sql
> /var/log/freeradius/radacct/*/detail {
> daily
> rotate 52
> missingok
> compress
> delaycompress
> notifempty
>     nocreate
> }
>
>
> --
> Justin Pasher
>
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-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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