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

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 22:44, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 
> >> Well but it should be possible to "chown" according to the
> >> directory-acl, shouldn't it?
> >
> >Oh yeah .. if the 'logrotate' program supported this. Webmin does not do
> >the actual rotation itself - it just creates a config file for
> >logrotate.
> 
> Maybe I missed the point.
> 
> Couldn't the module just forget about 'logrotate' in particular and
> just "chown" things with perl? I know that Webmin-Modules are just
> creating configuration files but this would be a recovery feature.

The problem is, log rotation is not kicked off by Webmin - instead,
logrotate is run from a cron job that does not involve Webmin at all.
And any such chowning needs to be done just after the log is re-created
..

 - Jamie