Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] New 1.3.5 available for testing!

[Dick M. <di...@fo...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I uploaded a new 1.3.5 i686 server build to the FTP server for testing!
> 
> It is mainly bug fixes for aufs.  Files are no longer in "mods" that
> don't need to be there, some upgrade-config fixes, and a newer version
> of busybox thanks to Serge.

This is better :-)  Well done Bruce.

I think I'd be happy to give it a try on my live system but I'd need a 586 
version and, preferably, the zcat bug* fixed.

* zcat works as gzip instead of gzip -cd.

Dick

Subject: cron.daily errors with 1.3.4

> Since moving to 1.3.4 I've been getting messages like this every day:
> >
> > Cron <root@Devil> /usr/sbin/cron.interval daily
> >
> > zcat: /var/log/mail.log.4.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> > zcat: /var/log/mail.log.3.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> > zcat: /var/log/mail.log.2.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> > zcat: /var/log/messages.2.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> > zcat: /var/log/apache2/access.log.2.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> >
> > It seems to be logwatch that is producing these.

I think this is because zcat is a sym link to gzip

On Debian zcat is a script which does exec gzip -cd "$@"

So here zcat is trying to compress file again rather than uncompress and send to
stdout.