[Xymon] RPMs - logrotate - duplicate entry

[John Horne]

Hi,

I'm just throwing this one out there as I haven't been able to think about it
too much. With the Terabithia RPMs, on our Xymon server I have installed both
the 'xymon' and 'xymon-client' packages. The problem is that they both install
an '/etc/logrotate.d' file - called 'xymon' and 'xymon-client' respectively.
Both files are exactly the same.

However, when logrotate runs it actually throws up an error because it is
trying to rotate the same file twice (because there are two logrotate files
which reference it). This error is emailed to me:

====
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on <server name>

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: xymon-client:4 duplicate log entry for /var/log/xymon/acknowledge.log
====

My thoughts about this have only got as far as thinking that perhaps when the
packages are installed, a pre or post installation check for the existence of
both logrotate files would cause one of them to be deleted. (Since both files
are exactly the same there is no need to install them both.) The downside would
be if, perhaps, we later removed the 'xymon' package (maybe moved it to another
server), we might then be left with no logrotate file on the server.

The 'acknowledge.log' file exists but is empty. Not sure if that is relevant.



John.

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John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services
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