From 70a8b71fd9d4951e69d1c4116dc28d2e1873d0eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rpm-build <rpm-build>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:30:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] logrotate.cron: use /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status as
 state file

Signed-off-by: rpm-build <rpm-build>
---
 examples/logrotate.cron |  2 +-
 logrotate.8             | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/logrotate.cron b/examples/logrotate.cron
index c6d50d4..967932e 100644
--- a/examples/logrotate.cron
+++ b/examples/logrotate.cron
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
+/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status /etc/logrotate.conf
 EXITVALUE=$?
 if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
     /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
diff --git a/logrotate.8 b/logrotate.8
index 3f30472..9c62dc8 100644
--- a/logrotate.8
+++ b/logrotate.8
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ and mail it to the recipient. The default mail command is \fB/bin/mail
 Tells \fBlogrotate\fR to use an alternate state file.  This is useful
 if logrotate is being run as a different user for various sets of
 log files.  The default state file is \fI/var/lib/logrotate.status\fR.
+Note that logrotate cron job on Fedora overrides the default with
+\fI/var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status\fR in order to support read-only
+mounted root file systems.
 
 .TP
 \fB\-\-usage\fR
@@ -557,10 +560,13 @@ Log files are rotated if the current year is not the same as the last rotation.
 
 .SH FILES
 .PD 0
-.TP 27
+.TP 42
 \fI/var/lib/logrotate.status\fR
 Default state file.
-.TP 27
+.TP 42
+\fI/var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status\fR
+Default state file used by logrotate cron job on Fedora.
+.TP 42
 \fI/etc/logrotate.conf\fR
 Configuration options.
 
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