RESEND: Fedora 14=>16 Logrotate, Systemctl, Httpd, SSL problem

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 04:34 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> I didn't get a response to this the first time so I thought I would try 
> again and hope for a new set of (knowledgeable) readers . . :
> 
> 
> Date	2012-02-02 04:55
> 
> People,
> 
> I have upgraded my server from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 (x86_64) - most 
> things are going again happily but there are a few remaining problems - 
> the main one at the moment involves Logrotate, Systemctl, Httpd and SSL. 
> My logrotate.conf is set up for daily rotations so I get old logs like:
> 
>    /var/log/httpd/access_log-20120202
> 
> but, presumably because of the changes in Fedora from "service" to 
> "systemctl" and a problem with now NOT auto-restarting httpd at the end 
> of the logrotate script (I can't enter a password at the tty prompt with 
> an auto-restart), logged data continues to be sent to the old, rotated 
> file ie:
> 
>    /var/log/httpd/access_log-20120202
> 
> instead of:
> 
>    /var/log/httpd/access_log
> 
> It looks like this was a known issue with the introduction of Fedora 15 
> and that it should have been fixed:
> 
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707917
> 
> - but it doesn't appear to be in my case - is there something I am 
> missing?
----
bug report makes it clear that supplying the SSL passphrase
interactively is simply not an option with systemd and thus your only
choice is to use the SSLPassPhraseDialog (or better yet, strip out the
key to a separate file and there's plenty of instructions to do that on
the web)

Craig


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