On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 20:02:17 -0800, Paul Makepeace
<Paul.Makepeace@???> wrote:
>At least with Debian the log rotation duties are handed over to savelog
>who's invoked in a /etc/cron.daily/exim script. This is quite a traditional
>unix-y way of doing things. The problem since these parameters are
>hard-coded into the script comes if the default number of files to keep
>changes or it's only desire to rotate weekly or whatever. When the package
>is upgraded these script hacks are typically lost, and worse often silently.
/etc/cron.d/exim is marked as a conffile in the Debian exim package
(see /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.conffiles), and as a conffile, dpkg
should never overwrite that file without asking. dpkg's conflict
handling is quite elaborate in this situation. If you have evidence
that dpkg is reproducibly overwriting a conffile, you should file a
Debian bug against dpkg and/or the package in question.
Greetings
Marc
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