Debian Bug report logs - #1014659
logrotate: error: state file /var/lib/logrotate/status is world-readable

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Package: logrotate; Maintainer for logrotate is Christian Göttsche <[email protected]>; Source for logrotate is src:logrotate (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 23:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: bullseye, confirmed

Merged with 1014732

Found in version logrotate/3.18.0-2+deb11u1

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From: Roman Mamedov <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1014659: logrotate: error: state file
 /var/lib/logrotate/status is world-readable
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Hello,

Here is the permission layout after the "error" message has been issued. I did
not check what it was before. I'm not sure if this means I will not get
another "error" tomorrow. On another host, I did "chmod o-rx" on the logrotate
directory, thinking maybe it wants that. Not sure yet if that helped either.

# ls -la /var/lib/logrotate/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 10 06:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Jun 22 13:44 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root root  782 Jul 10 06:32 status

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Roman

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