Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:49:04 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 230961] man page for newsyslog.conf(5) says that when specified, "BOTH" size conditions must be met. It should be "EITHER". Message-ID: <bug-230961-227-iS3NU1vK4q@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-230961-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-230961-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230961 --- Comment #1 from Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> --- The man page for newsyslog.conf(5) says that if both a size and a time interval are specified, BOTH conditions must be satisfied for the file rotation to take place: > Time based trimming happens only if newsyslog(8) is run within one hour of the specified time. If an interval is specified, the log file will be trimmed if that many hours have passed since the last rotation. When both a time and an interval are specified then both conditions must be satisfied for the rotation to take place. This is wrong. The rotation will take place if EITHER condition takes place. Consider this test, creating an entry that will be rotated when the file size reaches 10Mb, and the file is older than a day: Cheers, Jamie # echo "/tmp/test 555 10 10000 24 N" >> /etc/newsyslog.conf # touch /tmp/test # newsyslog -v /tmp/test Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf Found: <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* Found: <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* /tmp/test <10>: size (Kb): 0 [10000] age (hr): -1 [24] --> trimming log.... # l /tmp/test* 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 27 Aug 21:07 /tmp/test 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 27 Aug 21:07 /tmp/test.0 # newsyslog -v /tmp/test Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf Found: <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* Found: <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* /tmp/test <10>: size (Kb): 1 [10000] age (hr): 0 [24] --> skipping # dd if=/dev/random bs=1k count=10 | od -c > /tmp/test 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10240 bytes transferred in 0.000317 secs (32312115 bytes/sec) # l /tmp/test* 48 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 47,103 27 Aug 21:09 /tmp/test 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 27 Aug 21:07 /tmp/test.0 # newsyslog -v /tmp/test Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf Found: <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* Found: <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* /tmp/test <10>: size (Kb): 46 [10000] age (hr): 0 [24] --> skipping # l /tmp/test* 48 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 47,103 27 Aug 21:09 /tmp/test 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 27 Aug 21:07 /tmp/test.0 # touch -r /COPYRIGHT /tmp/test.0 # l /tmp/test* 48 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 47,103 27 Aug 21:09 /tmp/test 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 24 Jun 2017 /tmp/test.0 # newsyslog -v /tmp/test Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf Found: <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* Found: <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* /tmp/test <10>: size (Kb): 46 [10000] age (hr): 10302 [24] --> trimming log.... # l /tmp/test* 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 27 Aug 21:10 /tmp/test 48 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 47,164 27 Aug 21:10 /tmp/test.0 4 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 61 24 Jun 2017 /tmp/test.1 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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