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

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

Hi,

OK. As the only feedback I got was from Evan, I changed the SPEC file again, and CentOS/RHEL 8 uses now /etc/logrotate.d/syslog. Here is the summary:

  *   RHEL/CentOS 7: /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is the same as for rsyslog and installed always
  *   Fedora: /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng installed only if rsyslog is not installed
  *   RHEL/CentOS 8: /etc/logrotate.d/syslog installed only if rsyslog is not installed

Tested on CentOS 7, CentOS 8 and Fedora 31, all seem to work. You can test it from https://syslog-ng.com/blog/rpm-packages-from-syslog-ng-git-head/ Any feedback is appreciated. Note, that the version says 3.28.1, but there was no official release yet.

Bye,

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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From: Peter Czanik (pczanik) <Peter.Czanik at oneidentity.com>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 17:17
To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] request for testing: logrotate scripts in Fedora/RHEL packages

Hi,

Fedora already changed to a name-based logrotate, so rsyslog has /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog. That's how the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng naming was born.

Not tested, but I just got the idea: for RHEL 8 keep the syslog-ng logroate file called as /etc/logrotate.d/syslog. It is fugly, another exception in the spec file. But it resolves your problem, and hopefully does not cause much problems for others.

Personally I prefer to do the renaming to /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng as soon as possible (it will definitely be renamed with RHEL 9 in a few years), but what others think?

Bye,

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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From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 16:39
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Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] request for testing: logrotate scripts in Fedora/RHEL packages

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The %config(no-replace) does not work for a file that does not yet
exist. The difficulty here is that the logrotate file name is changing from

/etc/logrotate.d/syslog

to

/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

With the current packaging I would have to "configure" all of my hosts
with the new configuration file BEFORE the syslog-ng package gets
updated. It's doable, but not desirable.

Evan.

On 6/16/20 7:31 AM, Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 07:29:24AM -0700, Evan Rempel wrote:
>> This process will remove my custom /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file and create a
>> new default /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
> IIRC you can configure the specfile to not overwrite config files with a %
> directive, something like %config(no-replace) or similar
>
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