[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#728682: reassign to logrotate

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

reassign 728682 logrotate
retitle 728682 logrotate: cronjob: please use invoke-rc.d --quiet
thanks

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Erwan David wrote:
> /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.

Well, "rotate" is a custom action provided by logrotate.  We cannot really
teach invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d about it in the general case.

What is happening is that invoke-rc.d is warning you that it is sending a
non-standard action to policy-rc.d.  That warning doesn't show up otherwise.

For now, it would be best for logrotate to use "--quiet" to call invoke-rc.d
with custom actions.

That said, I am unsure if a cron script is the proper place to use
invoke-rc.d, it is certainly not its intended (and expected!) use profile.

We usually control cronjobs through /etc/default/<package> or automatically
(so as to avoid running them when the package is in removed but not purged
state), and not through runlevels...

Anyway, I am reassigning the bug to logrotate.

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  Henrique Holschuh