Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping logrotate from core/base

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:

Hi,

I just pushed a logrotate package to testing that is no longer part of the base group. This also means that this package can be moved from core to extra.

Any objections? I am not sure about e.g. wtmp faillog etc. So I might just need to revert that change.

wtmp and btmp need to be rotated. Other services (notably here: cups, nginx, apache, libvirt, postgresql, samba) also expect to have their logfiles rotated. I believe we should continue to install *and run* logrotate by default until we can get rid of wtmp and btmp and move services to use journal or syslog.