Package: rsyslog
Version: 8.34.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Between rsyslog package versions 8.24.0-1 and 8.34.0-1, after "logrotate" runs,
new "/var/log/syslog" and "/var/log/messages" files are created but ignored;
their sizes are 0 bytes, and rsyslogd continues writing to "/var/log/syslog.1"
and "/var/log/messages.1".
Comparing rsyslog package versions 8.24.0-1 and 8.34.0-1, the ExecStart line in
file "/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service" changed from
"ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n" to "ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE".
Apparently, this change breaks log-rotate functionality. In
"/etc/init.d/rsyslog", when the function "do_rotate()" is changed from
do_rotate() {
start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec
$DAEMON
}
to
do_rotate() {
start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --exec $DAEMON
}
(removing "--pidfile $PIDFILE"), the log files rotate as expected.
In "/etc/init.d/rsyslog", the functions "do_start()" and "do_stop()" also use
the "--pidfile" argument, options which, based on the change to
"/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service", may no longer be needed. The package
maintainer can best determine whether or not those functions also need to be
changed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages rsyslog depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.51
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libestr0 0.1.10-2.1
ii libfastjson4 0.99.8-2
ii liblogging-stdlog0 1.0.6-3
ii liblognorm5 2.0.5-1
ii libsystemd0 238-4
ii libuuid1 2.32-0.1
ii lsb-base 9.20170808
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages rsyslog recommends:
ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1
Versions of packages rsyslog suggests:
pn rsyslog-doc <none>
pn rsyslog-gnutls <none>
pn rsyslog-gssapi <none>
pn rsyslog-mongodb <none>
pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none>
pn rsyslog-relp <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/rsyslog changed [not included]
/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog changed [not included]
-- debconf-show failed
