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From: Evren Yurtesen <Evren.Yurtesen@abo.fi>
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Subject: Bug#1008668: bug #1008668: tomcat9: logrotated is not able to truncate catalina.out
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:50:01 +0200
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Hi,

I am not sure if anybody received my previous e-mails as I do not see them =
in the mailing list thread. :(

>  What is the problem with logrotate? It happily rotates files owned by an=
yone in Debian.

Because in Ubuntu rsyslog drops privileges to `syslog` user. Therefore, the=
 log files generated by rsyslog are owned by the `syslog` user. But tomcat9=
 logrotate configuration forces logrotate to become `tomcat` user, during r=
otation. Rsyslog fails to truncate the catalina.out file which has read/wri=
te permissions only for `syslog` user.

One solution would be undoing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsy=
slog/+bug/388608 at Ubuntu. But I do not know how to reach to correct peopl=
e at Ubuntu side. I also do not think I could convince them that this is cr=
eating problems.

It is really sad to see that a simple problem related to a single file's pe=
rmissions can take so long to resolve. Any help you can provide is welcome.=
=20

Thanks,
Evren=