logrotate.d/arno-iptables-firewall.conf references rsyslog

[AZ]

Binary package hint: arno-iptables-firewall

The arno-iptables-firewall package ships with a logrotate script, that is enabled by default and references rsyslog.
Though, arno-iptables-firewall does not require rsyslog to be installed. Also, if rsyslog is replaced on ubuntu
by syslog-ng, then logrotate will fail due to arno-iptables-firewall cannot be executed. As both rsyslog and syslog-ng ship their own logrotate configuration, I'd not expect arno-iptables-firewall to take care of reloading the syslog daemon.

Please remove the postrotate entry from logrotate.d/arno-iptables-firewall.conf.

This bug is also present in debian unstable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 2 13:41:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: arno-iptables-firewall 1.9.2.a-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 LC_COLLATE=POSIX
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae
SourcePackage: arno-iptables-firewall
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

Invalidating this task as it is not an rsyslog issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andy Brown (bj7u6139zdyf2a6nz2ly7-andy)]

This should also remove the dependency on rsyslog which in my view is wrong at best. This causes other syslog daemons not to be available to users, when in reality there is no real reason for this other than convenience that arno-iptables-firewall has a script that helps with rsyslog setup, but in reality it is no more or less reliant on any syslog daemon.

In my case it stops me using one or the other which is unacceptable.