https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072#c1 Vitezslav Cizek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |vcizek@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Vitezslav Cizek 2013-07-30 10:19:40 CEST --- That line gets parsed like this: First the whitespace at the beginning is eaten, then the directive name is read (alphanumeric characters only), then the optional '=' character (again possibly surrounded by whitespace) gets eaten, next the end of the line is found ('\n'), and all the whitespace backwards from the end of the line is eaten. Now only "+2048" string remains. It gets passed to strtoul(3), which accepts number with an optional sign prefix, so the string gets successfully parsed to the number 2048. I think that the '+' sign is there to visually indicate being 2048 or bigger. Someone probably wrote that in the past and it's been carried over ever since. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072#c3 --- Comment #3 from Vitezslav Cizek 2013-07-30 11:05:26 CEST --- There are many other configs in /etc/logrotate.d. On my computer:

grep -l "[ ]*=[ ]*+" /etc/logrotate.d/* /etc/logrotate.d/atftp /etc/logrotate.d/fetchmail /etc/logrotate.d/mcelog /etc/logrotate.d/ntp /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd /etc/logrotate.d/rsync /etc/logrotate.d/samba /etc/logrotate.d/xdm /etc/logrotate.d/xinetd

These files don't belong to logrotate rpm, they are installed by other packages. I suppose there are many others I don't have currently installed. This has to be fixed in all these different packages. So perhaps it would be easier to just mention the '=' and '+' in the manpage, when it's so broadly used. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072#c5 --- Comment #5 from Vitezslav Cizek 2013-07-31 16:09:56 CEST --- I'll add this to the manpage: "Values are separated from directives by whitespace and/or an optional =. Numbers must be specified in a format understood by strtoul(3)." -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831072#c7 --- Comment #7 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2013-08-02 17:00:41 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (831072) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/185648 Factory / logrotate -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.