[webmin-devel] [WEBMIN] Logrotate-Module in Webmin 1.27

[Martin M. <mm...@me...>]

Hi all,

please let me do some suggestions about the new module logrotate which
comes with the latest Devel-Package of Webmin.

While translating this module into german I ran across a problem which
may comes up, if certain logfiles are written and older ones are
stored in User-Homedirectories.

On my server I use the following template in Virtualmin for Apache

ServerName ${DOM}
ServerAlias www.${DOM}
DocumentRoot ${HOME}/public_html
ErrorLog ${HOME}/logs/www.$DOM.error.log
CustomLog ${HOME}/logs/www.$DOM.log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin ${HOME}/cgi-bin
<Directory ${HOME}>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
HostNameLookups on
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.$DOM/

So the current CustomLog and ErrorLog are owned by the user, but
rotated logs are owned by root. This does not do any harm to Webalizer
for my users because Webalizer works as root to get things done, but
sometimes users want to delete files in their directories (even if
deleting may would be stupid, but I can almost hear them say "These
are my files and I want to delete them if I want!").

I see it can be set with

		Standard (Yes, with old permissions)

but what if a gone wild admin wants to get things back, because he
messed up his configuration ;-)

I would suggest the following option to logrotate if possible:

######################################################################

Global Options
[...]
Re-create log file after rotation?
	[...]
	[x]	With rights taken from the folder the logs are written
		and stored in. Use this option if you want to be sure
		that all User-Logs can be fully accessed by your
		users. Be sure that your users have full access
		to their logfile-folders.
	[...]

######################################################################

After a complete rotation of (in my case) four weeks, admin can be
sure that all of his myriad logfiles ;-) are back to normal.


bis dahin - kind regards

Martin Mewes

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