[syslog-ng] request for testing: logrotate scripts in Fedora/RHEL packages

Balazs Scheidler bazsi77 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 12:28:31 UTC 2020


Hi,

can you please prepare a patch for our in-tree packaging scripts as well?
thanks.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:18 PM Peter Czanik (pczanik) <
Peter.Czanik at oneidentity.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There were multiple tickets, bug reports about logrotate scripts in
> syslog-ng RPM packages for Fedora/RHEL.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802165
> https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/issues/1384#issuecomment-644716350
>
> I have now a possible solution available for testing in my git snapshot
> repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng-githead/
>
>
>    - Installs the same logrotate script on RHEL/CentOS 7 as rsyslog
>    - On RHEL/CentOS 8 and Fedora the logrotate script is called syslog-ng
>    and uses systemctl to reload syslog-ng after rotation, just as the rsyslog
>    variant. It is in a separate subpackage, and installed only when rsyslog is
>    not on the system (for reasons check the RH bugzilla ticket: in short it
>    would not be used anyway due to conflicts)
>
> I tested it on Fedora 32 and CentOS 7, both with and without rsyslog on
> the system. It worked fine for me, but any feedback is appreciated.
>
> If it is tested to work by someone else than me, I'll push the changes
> both to the official EPEL package and to the syslog-ng github repo.
>
> Bye,
> CzP
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at oneidentity.com>
> Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
> https://syslog-ng.com/community/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
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