Re: [LTP] [PATCHv2] logrotate: fix permission issue for test2

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

Hi Po-Hsu,

> When running this logrotate test on Ubuntu, this test will fail with:
>   logrotate_tests 2 TINFO: sleep 1 min to wait for rotating logs
>   logrotate_tests 2 TFAIL: [ -f /var/log/tst_largelogfile.1.gz ] failed unexpectedly
>   logrotate_tests 2 TFAIL: Failed to create a compressed file

> Look more closely to what this test is trying to do we will see there
> are two issues here in the tst_largelog.conf:

> 1. "include /etc/logrotate.d"
> This will rotate other log files defined here, since we are just testing
> the log rotation capability I think there is no need to rotate log files
> other than the testfile itself.

BTW (for next time): I would have separated these 2 changes into 2 commits.

Kind regards,
Petr

> 2. Permission issue
> Trying to rotate the target file on Ubuntu will cause the following error:
>   error: skipping "/var/log/tst_largelogfile" because parent directory has
>          insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which
>          is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate
>          which user/group should be used for rotation.



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