Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.8-6 Severity: minor
The file /usr/share/doc/logrotate/README.Debian mentions sysklogd as other log rotating program on a typical Debian system. This was the case in 2006, but in 2011 this information is outdated. >From README.Debian: -- Note that logrotate is not the only log rotation program on a typical Debian system. sysklogd uses its own log rotation scripts which can be found in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd and /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd -- On Debian 6.0 (squeeze) sysklogd is no longer installed by default. Logging is done by rsyslog, rotating by logrotate. The comment can be confusing, as it is no longer the typical configuration. According to http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog this was already the case in Debian 5.0. I would like to ask to change the comment, and change it along the lines of: "[..] logrotate is not necessarily the only log rotation program [..] In case sysklogd is installed, it uses its own [..] This was the case in older Debian versions (< 5.0). [..]" -- Package-specific info: Contents of /etc/logrotate.d total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Apr 15 2011 apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Aug 11 01:35 aptitude -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Nov 18 11:12 clamav-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Nov 18 11:12 clamav-freshclam -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Apr 26 2011 dpkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120 Oct 5 2010 munin-node -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666 Jan 11 2011 ocsinventory-agent -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Nov 30 2010 rsyslog -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages logrotate depends on: ii base-passwd 3.5.22 Debian base system master password ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries Versions of packages logrotate recommends: ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.4-2 feature-rich BSD mail(1) logrotate suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
