logrotate/logrotate-3.7.8-suse.patch

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile.orig
+++ Makefile
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ifneq ($(STATEFILE),)
 endif
 
 BINDIR = $(BASEDIR)/sbin
-MANDIR = $(BASEDIR)/man
+MANDIR = $(BASEDIR)/share/man
 
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Index: examples/logrotate.cron
===================================================================
--- examples/logrotate.cron.orig
+++ examples/logrotate.cron
@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
-EXITVALUE=$?
+# exit immediately if there is another instance running
+if checkproc /usr/sbin/logrotate; then
+	/bin/logger -p cron.warning -t logrotate "ALERT another instance of logrotate is running - exiting"
+	exit 1;
+fi;
+
+TMPF=`mktemp /tmp/logrotate.XXXXXXXXXX`
+
+/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf 2>&1 | tee $TMPF
+EXITVALUE=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+
 if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
-    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
+    # wait a sec, we might just have restarted syslog
+    sleep 1
+    # tell what went wrong
+    /bin/logger -p cron.warning -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
+    /bin/logger -p cron.warning -t logrotate -f $TMPF
 fi
+
+rm -f $TMPF
 exit 0