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#64562 Rotated logs have different permissions from logs that have not yet been rotated

Package	Source(s)		Maintainer(s)
guix		PTS Buildd Popcon

Reported by Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date 2023-07-10T18:32:02
Severity important
Tags security
Merged with

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Report forwarded to bug-guix@gnu.org:
bug#64562; Package guix. (Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:32:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-guix@gnu.org. (Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:32:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox, reply):

I noticed this inconsistency:

------
$ ls -l /var/log/messages*
-rw-r----- 1 root root 112994 Jul 10 14:29 /var/log/messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8883 Jul  5 12:00 /var/log/messages.1.gz
------

This seems like a mistake.

Added tag(s) security. Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> to control@debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:21:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to bug-guix@gnu.org:
bug#64562; Package guix. (Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:44:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 64562@debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> I noticed this inconsistency:
>
> ------
> $ ls -l /var/log/messages*
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 112994 Jul 10 14:29 /var/log/messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8883 Jul  5 12:00 /var/log/messages.1.gz
> ------
>
> This seems like a mistake.

Definitely.  Rottlog being what it is, few people are willing to hack on
it.

Good news is that the upcoming Shepherd 1.0 has a ‘log-rotation’ that
doesn’t have this particular bug and is hopefully more hackable:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00159.html

Ludo’.

Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' Request was from Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> to control@debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:02:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Merged 57701 64562. Request was from Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> to control@debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:03:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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