GNU bug report logs - #40945
Rottlog service should create filenames with a '.gz' extension

Previous Next

Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Rottlog service should create filenames with a '.gz' extension
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:36:53 -0400

Currently, the rottlog service in %base-services creates old rotated
logs that are named like "messages.1", "messages.2", etc.

However, these files are compressed with gzip, and gzip refuses to
decompress them until you add '.gz' to the end of the filenames.

I think this should be happening by default but for some reason is
not. rottlog-configuration uses as the default configuration
(file-append rottlog "/etc/rc"), and that file does call for this
extension to be added...
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 14 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.