[Bug 374843] [NEW] inn2 news.daily dies after syslog is rotated

[John F. Morse]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: inn2

The INN news.notice logging stops when syslog is rotated around 0634
every morning. The /var/log/news/news.notice file then remains at zero
bytes.

Restarting INN with "ctlinnd xexec innd" does not restart the
news.notice logging. Nor will "rc.news stop" followed by "rc.news start"
restart the news.notice logging. It will restart after a reboot though,
and run until the next rotation of syslog, etc.

The last news.notice log entry provided with a "tail -F" of news.notice
is: "tail: news.notice: file truncated" and the actual news.notice file
is zero bytes. It should report: "tail: `news.notice' has been replaced;
following end of new file."

It appears INN, or something in the log rotate program(s) is/are not
restarting the INN news.notice gathering of entries from syslog (where
they actually are appearing properly).

The INN developers and maintainers at news.software.nntp suggested I
report this to the Ubuntu package maintainer. I do not know if this is a
bug in INN 2.4.4 or Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Server Edition.

The problem is on two separate servers. Both are currently updated,
upgraded and dist-upgraded.

For reference, I have INN 2.4.3 running flawlessly on Debian Sarge for
the past five years.

Linux optima2 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:54:25 UTC 2009 i586
GNU/Linux

john at optima2:/var/log/news$ cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid

john at optima5:~$ sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release:	8.04
Codename:	hardy

news at optima2:/usr/lib/news/bin$ innconfval -v
INN 2.4.4 (20070806 snapshot)

** Affects: inn2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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