logrotate/logwatch error on fc15

[Zdenek Pytela]

Alex pise:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an fc15 box and I'm having a problem with logwatch. I'm using
> bzip2 for the compresscmd for logrotate, yet it somehow is giving the
> compressed files a gz instead of bz2 extension. Logwatch uses this to
> determine which command to use to read the compressed files, so it
> therefore is using the wrong command.
> 
> However, the files seem to be begin rotated. I hoped someone could
> help clarify what's going on. I have the following in
> /etc/logrotate.conf:
> 
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
> compress
> 
> Here's a list of the freshclam files that are being compressed and rotated:
> 
> # ls -l /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log*
> -rw-rw---- 1 clamupdate amavis 6775 Oct 21 17:47 /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
> -rw-rw---- 1 clamupdate amavis  939 Oct 11 23:47
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log-20121012.gz
> -rw-rw---- 1 clamupdate amavis  916 Oct 12 23:46
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log-20121013.gz
> -rw-rw---- 1 clamupdate amavis  855 Oct 13 23:46
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log-20121014.gz
> 
> Running 'file' on the compressed files says they are bzip2 files.
> Here's the contents of the error message I receive from logwatch in an
> email every day from cron.daily:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch:
> gzip: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log-20121019.gz: not in gzip format
> system 'zcat '/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log-20121019.gz' >>
> /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.zOSnHbtE/clam-update-archive' failed: 256
> at /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch line 764.
> 
> Why are the files being compressed and named with the wrong extension?
	Is there another compress* option in you configuration? As of
logrotate(8):

compressext
              Specifies which extension to use on compressed logfiles, if
compression is enabled.  The default follows that of the configured
compression command.

the extension "should follow."

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--Zdenek Pytela, <pytela at phil.muni.cz>