[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#728682: invoke-rc.d : undocumented and "unknown" action rotate is used.

[Erwan David]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-43
Severity: normal

Each day I get the following error message from cron :

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
invoke-rc.d: action rotate is unknown, but proceeding anyway.

My /usr/bin/policy-rc.d does indeed treat the rotate action. However it is not documeted in the man page.

It seems there is a mismatch between logrotate and invoke-rc.d about this action.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.51
ii  insserv                1.14.0-5
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-43

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum           <none>
ii  sysv-rc-conf  0.99-7

-- debconf information:
  sysv-rc/unable-to-convert: