Package: debianutils Version: 2.12.0 Severity: important
# touch foo # chown mail.adm foo # savelog -p -c 10 foo chown: failed to get attributes of `--': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `--': No such file or directory Rotated `foo' at Fri Feb 18 15:07:02 GMT 2005. # ls -l foo* -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 18 15:07 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 mail adm 0 Feb 18 15:06 foo.0 When this happened to exim3 this morning at 3am, it no longer could write it's log files and all mail delivery stopped. The -p option should preserve the permissions on the new file which it did in previous versions. I tried 2.11.2 and got: # rm foo* # touch foo # chown mail.adm foo # savelog -p -c 10 foo Rotated `foo' at Fri Feb 18 15:11:41 GMT 2005. # ls -l foo* -rw-r--r-- 1 mail adm 0 Feb 18 15:11 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 mail adm 0 Feb 18 15:11 foo.0 Looks like some argument parsing is broken given the errors about '--' Dave -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
