Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0786 - logrotate bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

logrotate bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated logrotate package that fixes various bugs and adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The logrotate utility simplifies the administration of multiple log files, allowing the automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the AUTHORS section of the logrotate(8) manual page contained invalid contact information for previous maintainers. This update modifies the manual page and adds this information to ensure that the contact information of the current maintainers is correct. (BZ#659705)

  • Prior to this update, the definition of the "size" parameter in the logrotate(8) manual page was misleading. This update modifies the manual page and this definition is now easier to understand. (BZ#659713)

  • Prior to this update, the logrotate(8) manual page did not list all options that the logrotate utility actually recognizes. This update adds the missing options and the manual list contains now all available options. (BZ#659720)

  • Prior to this update, the logrotate(8) manual page contained several misprints. This update modifies the logrotate(8) manual page and corrects the misprints. (BZ#674864)

  • Prior to this update, logrotate did not check the configuration file for correctly matched brackets. As a consequence, system files could be wrongly removed. This update modifies logrotate so that brackets are detected and checked for correct matching. Now, configuration files without matching brackets are skipped. (BZ#736053)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

  • Prior to this update, logrotate removed the Access Control Lists (ACL) flags, which are used to permit selected groups to access all logs, when rotating logs. As a consequence, selected groups could not access all logs. With this update, ACL support has been added to logrotate. (BZ#683622)

All users of logrotate are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6.i686.rpm
  • logrotate-debuginfo-3.7.8-15.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • logrotate-debuginfo-3.7.8-15.el6.i686.rpm
  • logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • logrotate-debuginfo-3.7.8-15.el6.s390x.rpm
  • logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6.s390x.rpm
  • logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6.src.rpm
  • logrotate-debuginfo-3.7.8-15.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information