error: syslog-ng:68 duplicate log entry for /var/log/xferlog

Elan Ruusamäe glen at delfi.ee
Wed Aug 10 11:03:58 CEST 2005


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On Monday 01 August 2005 14:27, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On Monday 01 August 2005 12:45, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > how this got resolved? because i seem to have same conflict between
> > > syslog and proftpd.
> > >
> > > # grep xferlog /etc/logrotate.d/*
> > > /etc/logrotate.d/ftpd:/var/log/xferlog {
> > > /etc/logrotate.d/syslog:/var/log/xferlog {
> > > # rpm -qf ftpd syslog
> > > proftpd-common-1.2.10-5
> > > syslog-1.4.1-13.2
> >
> > Should be removed from proftpd, IMO.
> > xferlog i a common thing.
>
> although the question remains, who writes the log? syslog? or proftpd?
> if it's syslogd, then yes, rotation should be in syslog package
> but if it's proftpd writing it directly, then it should be in proftpd
> package.
>
> but in latter case i believe proftpd should be reconfigured to use
> differeng logfile.
>
> > > > Has appeared after:
> > > >
> > > > SOURCES/syslog-ng.logrotate
> > > >
> > > > 1.9 Sun Nov 7 13:57:37 2004 by blues
> > > > - added xferlog
> > > >
> > > > Please take a look at /etc/logrotate.d/ftpd from proftpd-common
> > > > (SOURCES/proftpd.logrotate) and remove one of these two (I suppose
> > > > you've got some reason in adding it to syslog itself).

-- 
glen



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