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[Fred Mobach <fred@xxxxxxxxx>]

SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9.0 contains logrotate version 3.6.6. This version
does not process the olddir directive correctly :
    olddir /var/log/old returns an error message
as does 
    olddir old

This patch solves the problem :

---cut here---
--- config.c    2002-12-10 18:41:16.000000000 +0100
+++ config.c    2003-12-01 22:03:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
                        return 1;
                    }

-                   if(newlog->oldDir[0] == '/') dirName = ld;
+                   if(newlog->oldDir[0] != '/') dirName = ld;
                    else dirName = newlog->oldDir;
                    if(stat(dirName, &sb)) {
                        message(MESS_ERROR, "%s:%d error verifying
olddir "
---cut here---
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