logrotate

Binary packages in oldstable

Description

Log rotation utility

Dependencies amd64

Depends

cron | anacron | cron-daemon | systemd-sysv, libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.34), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)

Suggests

bsd-mailx | mailx

Source package

Name

logrotate

Version

3.21.0-1

Maintainer

Christian Göttsche

Homepage

https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate

Repository

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logrotate

Bugs (34 open)

Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.

• #954274 important gzip: stdin: warning: file timestamp out of range for gzip format on bugs.debian.org pending by Sergio Belkin reported 19 Mar 2020 updated 19 Mar 2020
• #831764 important logrotate: does not rotate logs if delaycompress is used on bugs.debian.org pending by mbraun reported 19 Jul 2016 updated 9 Sep 2019 moreinfounreproducible
• #1073164 normal pbuilder build --twice, stray process that requires manual intervention on bugs.debian.org pending reported 13 Jun 2024 updated 23 Jun 2024 unreproducible
• #1052000 normal logrotate systemd timer should run hourly rather than daily on bugs.debian.org pending by Todd J reported 15 Sep 2023 updated 4 Jan 2024 wontfix
• #1014732 normal logrotate: daily mail “error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is world-readable and thus…” on bugs.debian.org pending by Thorsten Glaser reported 11 Jul 2022 updated 4 Jan 2024 bullseyeconfirmed
• #1014659 normal logrotate: error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is world-readable on bugs.debian.org pending by Holger Levsen reported 10 Jul 2022 updated 4 Jan 2024 bullseyeconfirmed
• #959773 normal logrotate: global options do not affect preceding on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Stanislav Sukholet reported 5 May 2020 updated 28 Sep 2021 forwarded to github.com wontfix
• #943651 normal logrotate (and packages which provide logrotate configs) should have more 'secure' defaults wrt logs retained on bugs.debian.org pending by Francis M reported 27 Oct 2019 updated 27 Oct 2019
• #940711 normal logrotate: with systemd, no mail in case of error on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported 19 Sep 2019 updated 22 Sep 2019
• #504333 normal logrotate ignores files with date 1904-1-1 in /var/lib/logrotate/status on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Vincent Lefevre reported 2 Nov 2008 updated 21 Sep 2019 forwarded to github.com moreinfounreproducible
• #738549 minor logrotate truncates logs when rule matches a directory and a path with a symlink to this directory on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Daniel Stensnes reported 10 Feb 2014 updated 10 Sep 2019 forwarded to github.com wontfix
• #1135191 wishlist logrotate: please purge /var/lib/logrotate using dh-crutf on bugs.debian.org pending by Alexandre Detiste reported 29 Apr 2026 updated 29 Apr 2026
• #989242 wishlist please write your own logfile on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported 30 May 2021 updated 1 Jun 2021
• #922046 wishlist please set a default maxsize in logrotate.conf on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported 11 Feb 2019 updated 8 Sep 2019
• #900423 wishlist logrotate: set a default maxsize to always rotate large files on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported 30 May 2018 updated 8 Sep 2019
• #886916 wishlist logrotate: Make logs compress in lzip by default instead of gzip on bugs.debian.org pending by TemTem reported 11 Jan 2018 updated 23 Aug 2018 wontfix
• #656060 wishlist logrotate: drop compress option on bugs.debian.org pending by Richard Laager reported 16 Jan 2012 updated 13 Aug 2020 wontfix
• #620043 wishlist logrotate: Please use NN digit numbering, not single digit N on bugs.debian.org pending by Jari Aalto reported 29 Mar 2011 updated 23 Aug 2018 wontfix
• #551888 wishlist logrotate: should use dateext as default on bugs.debian.org pending by Guillaume Allegre reported 21 Oct 2009 updated 26 Oct 2011
• #539607 wishlist logrotate: please use multiple digits NN.log if rotate count > 9 on bugs.debian.org pending by Jari Aalto reported 2 Aug 2009 updated 23 Aug 2018 wontfix
• #431603 wishlist subject header inconsistent on mailed logs when using dateext on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Tom Metro reported 3 Jul 2007 updated 23 Aug 2018 forwarded to github.com
• #431601 wishlist incorporate log file timestamp into subject line when mailing log on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Tom Metro reported 3 Jul 2007 updated 23 Aug 2018 forwarded to github.com
• #413138 wishlist logrotate: Use NNN template in files (like 001), instead of 1, 2, 3, 11 which do not sort on bugs.debian.org pending by Jari Aalto reported 2 Mar 2007 updated 23 Aug 2018 wontfix
• #353663 wishlist logrotate: should allow reading log file list from a file on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Marc Haber reported 20 Feb 2006 updated 23 Aug 2018 forwarded to github.com
• #327006 wishlist wtmp rotation is annoying; breaks common uses of 'last' on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported 7 Sep 2005 updated 23 Aug 2018 wontfix

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