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Fix man page to mention usage of systemd timers

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Resolves: RHEL-109481
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Jan Macku 2025-12-18 15:07:13 +01:00
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From 1c1feebaddfd7c736cf08409f404fbeb6d499ede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Macku <jamacku@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:40:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: add note about systemd timer
Update description to make it more clear that logrotate uses systemd timers
when using systemd.
(cherry picked from commit 6293cffe9a5166cb8053d1f3814e8c47a78f9868)
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logrotate.8.in | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/logrotate.8.in b/logrotate.8.in
index 4ff198e..4577d83 100644
--- a/logrotate.8.in
+++ b/logrotate.8.in
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression,
removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily,
weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.
.P
-Normally, \fBlogrotate\fR is run as a daily cron job. It will not modify
+Normally, \fBlogrotate\fR is run as a daily cron job (or by
+\fIlogrotate.timer\fR when using \fBsystemd\fR(1)). It will not modify
a log more than once in one day unless the criterion for that log is
based on the log's size and \fBlogrotate\fR is being run more than once
each day, or unless the \fB\-f\fR or \fB\-\-force\fR option is used.
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2.52.0

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Summary: Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files
Name: logrotate
Version: 3.22.0
Release: 4%{?dist}
Release: 5%{?dist}
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
URL: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate
Source0: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/releases/download/%{version}/logrotate-%{version}.tar.xz
@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Source3: rwtab
# https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/pull/633
Patch001: 001-Avoid-opening-log-file-for-getting-SELinux-context.patch
# https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/pull/690
Patch002: 002-man-add-note-about-systemd-timer.patch
BuildRequires: acl
BuildRequires: automake
BuildRequires: gcc
@ -118,6 +121,9 @@ fi
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/rwtab.d/logrotate
%changelog
* Thu Dec 18 2025 Jan Macku <jamacku@redhat.com> - 3.22.0-5
- Fix man page to mention usage of systemd timers (RHEL-109481)
* Tue Oct 29 2024 Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> - 3.22.0-4
- Bump release for October 2024 mass rebuild:
Resolves: RHEL-64018