diff -Naur logrotate-3.19.0.orig/logrotate.8.in logrotate-3.19.0/logrotate.8.in --- logrotate-3.19.0.orig/logrotate.8.in 2022-02-24 11:18:24.202811846 +0100 +++ logrotate-3.19.0/logrotate.8.in 2022-02-24 11:28:25.137690351 +0100 @@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ is given on the command line, every file in that directory is used as a config file. .P +If \fBlogrotate\fR is called via \fBsystemd\fR(1), following order of +parsed config files is defined in the \fIlogrotate.service\fR file: +.TS +tab(:); +l l l. +\fI/usr/etc/logrotate.conf\fR:Default configuration file defined by the vendor. +\fI/usr/etc/logrotate.d/*\fR:Directory for additional configuration files defined by the vendor. +\fI/etc/logrotate.conf\fR:Default configuration file defined by the administrator. (optional) +\fI/etc/logrotate.d/*\fR:Directory for additional configuration files defined by the administrator. (optional) +.TE +.P If no command line arguments are given, \fBlogrotate\fR will print version and copyright information, along with a short usage summary. If any errors occur while rotating logs, \fBlogrotate\fR will exit with @@ -76,7 +87,7 @@ acquires a lock on the state file, if it cannot be acquired \fBlogrotate\fR will exit with value 3. The default state file is \fI@STATE_FILE_PATH@\fR. If \fI/dev/null\fR is given as the state file, then \fBlogrotate\fR will -not try to write the state file. +not try to lock or write the state file. .TP \fB\-\-skip-state-lock\fR @@ -752,7 +763,8 @@ tab(:); l l l. \fI@STATE_FILE_PATH@\fR:Default state file. -\fI/etc/logrotate.conf\fR:Configuration options. +\fI/usr/etc/logrotate.conf\fR:Configuration options defined by the vendor. +\fI/etc/logrotate.conf\fR:Configuration options defined by the administrator. .TE