rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

Package: init-system-helpers; Maintainer for init-system-helpers is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for init-system-helpers is src:init-system-helpers.

Reported by: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:46:09 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo

Merged with 881, 882, 884

Found in version init-system-helpers/1.65.2devuan1

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>, 883@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#883: /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of
 invoke-rc.d
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Opty wrote:
> Package: rsyslog
> Version: 8.2302.0-1+deb12u1devuan1
> 
> /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate uses invoke-rc.d to notify rsyslog to
> reopen logs but it doesn't work when using
> policy-rcd-declarative-deny-all so shouldn't the logrotate
> configuration snippet use rather 'service' ?

Possibly, although all the other logrotate fragments I can find use invoke-rc.d.

Why do you have policy-rcd-declarative-deny-all installed anyway? I suppose the
rationale goes that if you deny starting services in the first place, you don't
need to rotate the logs because they will be empty/unchanged.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #883 /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

Devuan bug report logs - #883
/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d