Comment 14 for bug 1630516

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[Impact]

Logrotate fails to rotate a log and then will continue to fail to rotate it until manual intervention takes place. If messaging has not been configured on the system there will be no warning issued to the user. The log will grow day by day until a user intervenes or the drive that the log is stored on is full.

Very large log files can make it more difficult to find useful data. Full drives make the rest of the system fail to operate. Backporting a fix would prevent drives filling up on stable releases.

[Test Case]

Go to your logs area (/var/logs) and create a file with a name ending .2, as would be created part way through the logrotate process. So if you have /var/log/syslog, /var/log/syslog.1, /var/log/syslog.2.gz, /var/log/syslog.3.gz; create a new file named /var/log/syslog.2. Your subsequent log rotate runs will fail.

[Regression Potential]

<I have not looked into the changes yet>

[Other Info]