Bug#571033: logrotate: Logrotate mis-parses config if log dir does not exist, and rotates wrong files

[Paul Martin]

Here's my patch, based on your idea.

-- 
Paul Martin <p...@debian.org>

Index: logrotate-3.7.8/config.c
===================================================================
--- logrotate-3.7.8.orig/config.c	2010-03-15 15:52:12.146006930 +0000
+++ logrotate-3.7.8/config.c	2010-03-15 15:49:24.748007001 +0000
@@ -575,8 +575,28 @@
 		    return 1;
 		} else if (*start == '\n') {
 		    lineNum++;
+		    while (isblank(*start) && (*start))
+			start++;
+		} else if (
+		    (strncmp(start, "postrotate", 10) == 0) ||
+		    (strncmp(start, "prerotate", 9) == 0) ||
+		    (strncmp(start, "firstrotate", 11) == 0) ||
+		    (strncmp(start, "lastrotate", 10) == 0)
+		    )
+		{
+		    while (*start) {
+			while ((*start != '\n') && (*start))
+			    start++;
+			lineNum++;
+			while (isblank(*start) && (*start))
+			    start++;
+			if (strncmp(start, "endscript", 9) == 0) {
+			    start += 9;
+			    break;
+			}
+		} else {
+		    start++;
 		}
-		start++;
 	    }
 	    start++;