Comment 3 for bug 374843

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dtaylor84 (davidt-launchpad) wrote :

The change to add "&& !$opt_all " has now broken news.daily.

The problem is that write access to news.{crit,err,info,notice} is needed by both syslog (duh) and news.daily (it copies and truncates the log files each night).

/etc/init.d/sysklogd changes the ownership of all files listed by syslogd-listfiles -a to syslog:adm, and news.daily obviously can't truncate the file, so the logfile and nightly email messages grow without bound.