[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#504700: does not rotate logfile /var/log/mailman/mischief

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.9-7
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.8

The stable (etch) version of mailman does not rotate the logfile
/var/log/mailman/mischief. It is used to record login failures and
similar things from the cgi scripts mailman provides. As the log file is
not rotated it may fill the disk which violates policy section 10.8. I
hope that this is already fixed in lenny and if not it really should.

Also this bug is easy to fix as you only have to provide a simple
logrotate config with tons of examples in /etc/logrotate.d/mailman
already available (don't forget that mischief is group=www-data).

Helmut

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2                2.2.3-4+etch6     Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [h 2.2.3-4+etch6     Traditional model for Apache HTTPD
ii  cron                   3.0pl1-100        management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11etch2       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4                  4.63-17           metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [ma 4.63-17           lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate              3.7.1-3           Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  pwgen                  2.05-1            Automatic Password generation
ii  python                 2.4.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support         0.5.6             automated rebuilding support for p
ii  ucf                    2.0020            Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages:
* mailman/create_site_list: