[Bug 178195] Re: ntop uninstall doesn't remove ntop from the log rotation

[Andreas Olsson]

Yes, deleting /etc/logrotate.d/ntop will "solve" a problem like this. A
more clean solution is probably to have that file indirectly deleted by
purging the remains of you ntop installation. (dpkg --purge ntop)

That said, it's not necessarily the right packaging solution to have
/etc/logrotate.d/ntop deleted on a non-purging package removal. From
what I've seen these kinds of files are usually left alone until they
are actually purged.

>From what I can see this problem is caused when ntop isn't actually ran
enough to generate any log files inside /var/log/ntop. Hence
/var/log/ntop (being listed in debian/dirs) is automatically removed on
a package deletion.

If there are actually log files created once, this shouldn't be a
problem, since  /etc/logrotate.d/ntop contains "notifempty", preventing
current logs from  being rotated away once no new logs are created.

** Changed in: ntop (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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ntop uninstall doesn't remove ntop from the log rotation
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