Rotated logs have different permissions from logs that have not yet been rotated

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  • Leo Famulari
  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Maxim Cournoyer
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Leo Famulari wrote on 10 Jul 2023 20:31
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I noticed this inconsistency:

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$ ls -l /var/log/messages*
-rw-r----- 1 root root 112994 Jul 10 14:29 /var/log/messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8883 Jul 5 12:00 /var/log/messages.1.gz
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This seems like a mistake.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 6 Sep 14:20 +0200
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 7 Sep 00:17 +0200
Re: bug#64562: Rotated logs have different permissions from logs that have not yet been rotated
(name . Leo Famulari)(address . leo@famulari.name)(address . 64562@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

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> I noticed this inconsistency:
>
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> $ ls -l /var/log/messages*
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 112994 Jul 10 14:29 /var/log/messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8883 Jul 5 12:00 /var/log/messages.1.gz
> ------
>
> This seems like a mistake.

Definitely. Rottlog being what it is, few people are willing to hack on
it.

Good news is that the upcoming Shepherd 1.0 has a ‘log-rotation’ that
doesn’t have this particular bug and is hopefully more hackable:


Ludo’.
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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 12 Nov 14:00 +0100
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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 12 Nov 14:00 +0100
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merge 64562 57701
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