Re: [webmin-l] Webmin fails to configure logrotate using existing permissions

[Andrey R. <anr...@ya...>]

Greetings, Joaquim Homrighausen!


> You may be right ... but the manpage (at least for me) shows this:

> create mode owner group, create owner group

>                Immediately  after rotation  (before the postrotate 
> script is run) the log file is created (with the same name as
>                the log file just rotated).  mode specifies the mode for 
> the log file in octal (the same as chmod(2)), owner spec‐
>                ifies  the  user name who will own the log file, and 
> group specifies the group the log file will belong to. Any of
>                the log file attributes may be omitted, in which case 
> those attributes for the new file will use the  same  values
>                as the original log file for the omitted attributes. This 
> option can be disabled using the nocreate option.


> And I don't see any "create" instruction in there. But maybe one of the 
> other options imply "create"?

I read the man page like "create" is default, and it creates files with
ownership/umask of a user running logrotate, unless something else specified.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 12:52:24

Sorry for my terrible english...