On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 20 November 2006 08:09, Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Monday 20 November 2006 12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Now if logrotate would work... Its not. See my other post. > > > >Well, for all the logs that I would expect to rotate, I have files dated > >5.11.06, 12.11.06, 19.11.06 and 20.11.06. > > > >Yet another peculiarity of your install, Gene. > > > >Anne > > I *may* be on the track of it, following Ricks advice I ran it from a > shell, and discovered the whole thing died on not finding a user 'named', > and I do not have bind installed. So I'll do that but set the service to > off. nscd is running and thats should be enough. > > As to this being a bugzilla-able item, dunno. It seems to me that it > should be bind that installs this particular script, not logrotate's rpm. > > After installing bind, the user named is in the passwd file, and it runs. > This to me is a bugzilla-able packaging problem. > I always have bind installed so have never seen that. There should be logic in the logrotate script to politely ignore the stuff that is not installed, so I would consider that worthy of a bug on logrotate.
