[Bug 662312] Re: Cannot handle spaces in compressoptions

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: logrotate (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Cannot handle spaces in compressoptions

Status in “logrotate” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “logrotate” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: logrotate

  I set these options in /etc/logrotate.conf:

     compress
     compresscmd      /usr/bin/xz
     uncompresscmd    /usr/bin/unxz
     compressoptions  -7 -e -T 1
     compressext      xz

  Compression fails with:

     /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
     error: /etc/logrotate.conf:23 bad compressoptions path -7 -e -T 1
     run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

  logrotate fails if the compressoptions setting has any spaces.  This
  is also upstream Debian bug #159797 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=159797> -- reported in 2002!

  Like the original report, this one has a workaround:

     compressoptions -7eT1

  Eventually someone will need options which cannot be jammed into a
  single space-free string.

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