On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Stefan Krusche wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> the file /var/log/boot on my system has now grown up to more than 1.2MB.
> It never got rotated since I installed this system (~ June 2018).
>
> I looked into /etc/init.d/bootlogd and there's apparently some code to
> rotate /var/log/boot under the "stop)" clause of the "case $ACTION"
> construct which does a check first (line 66):
>

>     if [ -f /var/log/boot ] && [ -f /var/log/boot~ ]
>     then
> […]

>
> after which the code follows which is supposed to rotate /var/log/boot
> IIUC.
>
> /var/log/boot~ doesn't exist. It obviously never had been created and
> therefore /var/log/boot isn't rotated, I think.
>
> I assume this to be a bug, but as I'm not familiar with the
> particularities of init scripts, I'd like to ask for your opinions
> about that issue here.
>

Stefan, bootlogd will always log the current boot in /var/log/boot
after having renamed it into /var/log/boot~. In this way you always
have the log of the current boot in /var/log/boot and the log of the
previous one in /var/log/boot~. So there should be no need to rotate
them.

HTH

KatolaZ

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