On 2015-07-12, at 4:15 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 11:51 -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
>> On 2013-04-24, at 7:36 AM, John David Anglin wrote:
>>
>>> On 24-Apr-13, at 7:01 AM, Paul Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>> The test is
>>>>
>>>> if ((prev_acl = acl_get_fd(fdcurr)) == NULL) {
>>>> if (errno != ENOTSUP) {
>>>> message(MESS_ERROR, "getting file ACL %s: %s\n",
>>>> currLog, strerror(errno));
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and your kernel is responding with ENOSYS instead. This contradicts
>>>> the manpage acl_get_fd(3):
>>>>
>>>> [ENOTSUP] The file system on which the file identified by fd is
>>>> located does not support ACLs, or ACLs are disabled.
>>>
>>> Thanks, forwarded your response to the parisc-linux list for review.
>>
>>
>> The spurious mail has come back with logrotate 3.8.7-2. File system is ext4:
>> /dev/sdc6 on /var type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
>>
>> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>> error: getting file ACL /var/log/apt/term.log: Operation not supported
>> error: getting file ACL /var/log/apt/history.log: Operation not supported
>> ...
>
> It looks like you built your kernel without CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL.
> The warning is harmless because ACLs aren't required for logs ... it's
> merely trying to duplicate the ACL on the rotated file.
You were correct, CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL wasn't defined. Adding this to the kernel
appears to suppress the spam email from logrotate.
Thanks,
Dave
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