[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#412320: Changes for aide log rotation

[Marc Haber]

tags #412320 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 02:23:20PM +0100, Tim Stoop wrote:
> With the default aide config, I was getting the following lines mailed
> each day:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Added files:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> added: /var/log/aide/aide.log.2.gz
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Removed files:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> removed: /var/log/aide/aide.log.5.gz

I have already noticed that as well myself. This must be some side
effect, since it used to work previously.

> This was fixed by changing the following line in 31_aide_aide:
> 
> /var/log/aide/aide\.log\.[2345]\.gz$ RotatedLogs
> 
> into:
> 
> /var/log/aide/aide\.log\.[123456]\.gz$ RotatedLogs
> 
> I do not really understand why this should fix this, Since they're
> already added to the RotatedLogs on separate lines (the line in front
> and after), but it seems to help...

Without having verified the effect (I'll do so before uploading), I do
not see any risk in that change (the [123456] rule is less specific
than the explicit 1 and 6 rules, and have committed the change to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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