Subject: Re: bug#64562: Rotated logs have different permissions from logs that have not yet been rotated

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:17:19 +0200

Hi,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I noticed this inconsistency:
>
> ------
> $ ls -l /var/log/messages*
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 112994 Jul 10 14:29 /var/log/messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8883 Jul  5 12:00 /var/log/messages.1.gz
> ------
>
> This seems like a mistake.

Definitely.  Rottlog being what it is, few people are willing to hack on
it.

Good news is that the upcoming Shepherd 1.0 has a ‘log-rotation’ that
doesn’t have this particular bug and is hopefully more hackable:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00159.html

Ludo’.