Sender: bcwhite
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:55:09 -0400
From: Brian White &lt;bcwhite@verisim.com&gt;
Organization: Verisim, Inc.  http://www.verisim.com/
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To: Debian Bugs &lt;submit@bugs.debian.org&gt;
Subject: savelog makes unwritable files
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Package: debianutils
Version: 1.4

It appears that &quot;savelog&quot; has been changed so that it automatically
recreates the original file with a size of 0 after rotating the logs.

This in itself is not a problem except that it creates that new file
with the permissions given by the &quot;-m&quot; option.  If the permissions
givin with &quot;-m&quot; do not include write (and they sometimes don't since
writing to rotated logs is not usually useful), then the new log file
is effectively locked out.

I would recommend either removing this feature or having &quot;savelog&quot; save
a copy of the permissions before rotating and then restoring those
exact flags.


                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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