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* [pbs-devel] applied: [PATCH backup 1/4] log rotate: do NOT overwrite file with possible writers
@ 2020-10-20  9:10 Thomas Lamprecht
  2020-10-20  9:10 ` [pbs-devel] applied: [PATCH backup 2/4] log rotate: factor out compression in private function Thomas Lamprecht
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From: Thomas Lamprecht @ 2020-10-20  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pbs-devel

this is not the job of logrotate, and the real 20+ years battle
tested log rotate binary does not do so either as it's actually
pretty dangerous.

If we "replace" the file we break any logger which already opened a
new one here, e.g., a dameon starting up, and thus that writer would
log to nirvana.

It's the job of a logger to create a file if not existing, it makes
no sense to do it here.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
---
 src/tools/logrotate.rs | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/logrotate.rs b/src/tools/logrotate.rs
index ce311fbe..f7d1a693 100644
--- a/src/tools/logrotate.rs
+++ b/src/tools/logrotate.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use std::io::Read;
 use anyhow::{bail, Error};
 use nix::unistd;
 
-use proxmox::tools::fs::{CreateOptions, make_tmp_file, replace_file};
+use proxmox::tools::fs::{CreateOptions, make_tmp_file};
 
 /// Used for rotating log files and iterating over them
 pub struct LogRotate {
@@ -108,8 +108,6 @@ impl LogRotate {
             rename(&filenames[0], &filenames[1])?;
         }
 
-        // create empty original file
-        replace_file(&filenames[0], b"", options)?;
 
         if let Some(max_files) = max_files {
             // delete all files > max_files
-- 
2.27.0





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