On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> These error messages are correct. Logrotate is complaining that the
> directory is missing, not that the files are missing. Logrotate
> doesn't fail in this situation (even though it shouldn't occur with
> correctly installed packages that have had time to accumulate logs),
> but complains on stderr. A message on stderr is not a sign of the
> failure of logrotate.

Is piuparts complaining about stderr?

> The correct thing to do in this situation is to purge the package
> concerned, not just remove it.

No, that's not correct!

Why can't logrotate ignore the missing directory?

Olaf



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