[SOLVED] Slackware Current Empty etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new in May 28 Update

kjhambrick · 05-29-2018, 04:54 AM

All --

Any idea why etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new is a zero-length file in yesterday's ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz ?

Should I delete the old /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd ?

Or should I keep the old version and delete /etc/logrotate.d/ulog.new ?

Or something else ?

I looked at ulogd.SlackBuild and this is the line that makes the empty file:

Code:

mkdir -p $PKG/etc/logrotate.d
cat ulogd.logrotate > $PKG/etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new

Note that this ulogd.lograte file does exist in the old source tarball ulogd-2.0.5.tar.xz but it is no longer included in ulogd-2.0.7.tar.lz

Thanks.

-- kjh

Note ulogd.new:

Code:

# sh /root/tmp/update-logs/.find.new 

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Aug 30  2017 /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 May 28 12:55 /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new

and ...

Code:

# tar -tvf slackware64/n/ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz 

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/logrotate.d/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/rc.d/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       437 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/rc.d/rc.ulogd.new
-rw-r--r-- root/root     10294 2018-05-28 12:55 etc/ulogd.conf.new

ponce · 05-29-2018, 05:10 AM

it seems the ulogd devs removed it intentionally before releasing 2.0.7, leaving to distro maintainers to provide these files

https://git.netfilter.org/ulogd2/com...1b55bae31645b0

I think it's ok just to get an old copy of the ulogd.logrotate file and ship it with the SlackBuild.

in the meantime it's ok not to let slackpkg overwrite the old /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd with a blank one.

Petri Kaukasoina · 05-29-2018, 05:47 AM

Even though /etc/rc.d/rc.ulogd has x-bit set, nothing calls it. So, it if isn't run, it doesn't write to /var/log/ulogd.log either (which would be the log rotated). If the administrator uses ulogd to log netfilter stuff, she will configure it.

kjhambrick · 05-29-2018, 08:41 AM

Thanks All'Y'All.

For the time being, I'll remove /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd.new

Below is the old /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd if anyone needs it:

Thanks again.

-- kjh

# cat /etc/logrotate.d/ulogd

Code:

/var/log/ulogd.log /var/log/ulogd.syslogemu /var/log/ulogd.pktlog /var/log/ulogd.pcap {
    missingok
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/killall -HUP ulogd 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

kjhambrick · 05-31-2018, 08:37 AM

This Q was truly [RESOLVED] by Pat and the Team with the Slackware64 14.2+current update on Thu May 31 04:55:33 UTC 2018.

Note the new ulogd.logrotate file in the ~/source/n/ulogd/ directory below.

Thanks All'Y'All !

-- kjh

Code:

# pwd -P ; ls -la

/home/dld/slackware/slackware-current-64/source/n/ulogd

total 356
drwxr-xr-x   2 500 500   4096 May 28 19:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x 147 500 500   4096 May 29 15:44 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 500 500    343 Sep  8  2012 doinst.sh.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 500 500    437 Apr 22  2013 rc.ulogd
-rw-r--r--   1 500 500    884 May 28 12:54 slack-desc
-rw-r--r--   1 500 500 335009 Apr 26 18:23 ulogd-2.0.7.tar.lz
-rwxr-xr-x   1 500 500   3638 May 28 19:43 ulogd.SlackBuild*
-rw-r--r--   1 500 500    197 May 28 19:42 ulogd.logrotate