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Re: [Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

To: Bug 1630516 <1630516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ubuntu Papercuts Ninjas <papercuts-ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:01:26 +0100
In-reply-to: <20170315082635.31950.50274.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com>
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Thomas A. F. Thorne:
> "If a bug is trivial to fix, you shall classify it as a papercut by
> marking it as affecting the "hundredpapercuts" project." and this bug
> just needs the upstream bug brought in.

Christian Ehrhardt:
> As I said, I haven't tried yet, but it might be more than a papercut.

It looks like a papercut. Most of the patch just adds new checks, soit's likely to fit any version of the package:


(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=734688;filename=logrotate-dest-file-exists.patch;msg=20)

So I'll mark it as such now.


Thomas A. F. Thorne:
> This is a very low traffic bug so someone can unsubscribe them before
> this thread generates more than a couple of posts.

I'll unsubscribe the Papercuts Ninjas team from the bug now, but feelfree to still reply messages to the mailing list if that fits.


Thank you 🖒

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[Bug 1630516] Re: Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
From: Thomas A. F. Thorne, 2017-03-15