logrotate ownership problems

[Adam Funk]

A few days ago I upgraded rsyslog from 7.4.4-1ubuntu2 to
7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 on two machines running 14.04 (logrotate was already
at 3.8.7-1ubuntu1), & both of them are now giving me loads of
"insecure permissions" errors in this morning's anacron output.

I found a bug report [1] from April 2014 for this problem associated
with the logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1 package, but I've been using that
package for a while now & only seen the problem with this new rsyslog
update.

What is the correct workaround for this --- adding su lines to the
logrotate.conf.d/* files, or changing the ownership of the /var/log
directories & files?

Thanks,
Adam


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1278193