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

[Evan Rempel]

The RHEL7 packages work correctly and do not have any conflict with rsyslog.

The RHEL8 package is going to give me some problems. Our syslog-ng 
configuration produces files different than the default, so we have 
configured the logrotate file appropriately. When the RPM update process 
runs the syslog-ng package will be updated and because we do not have 
the rsyslog package installed, the syslog-ng-logrotate package will be 
installed.

This process will remove my custom /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file and 
create a new default /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

This will break by logrotate configuration on all systems that 
auto-update the RPM packages.

I think the correct approach would be to move the 
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog file to /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng when the 
syslog-ng-logrotate package is installed for the first time.

Evan.

On 6/16/20 5:18 AM, Peter Czanik (pczanik) 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://syslog-ng.com/community/>
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik

-- 
Evan Rempel

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