Bug 446

Summary:	provide option to maintain compressed data in /var/log/sudo-io
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Kent Squires <ksquire>
Component:	Sudoreplay	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Kent Squires 2010-10-18 15:10:43 MDT

i found the following command produces massive files in /var/log/sudo-io  (in the stdout or stdin files) on both source and destination servers

/tmp/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/tar -cf - /maint | /usr/bin/ssh destination_server /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/tar -xf - /maint

would it be possible for sudo to be able to maintain the log files it creates under /var/log/sudo-io as compressed? (either using native unix compress or gzip?) to help reduce logging space?

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2010-10-18 15:21:22 MDT

This already exists; you just need to have zlib available.  Sudo's configure script will look for zlib and link against it if it is found.  You can also use the --enable-zlib=PATH confgure option to tell configure where to find zlib if it is not in the standard library search path.

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2010-10-28 12:27:33 MDT

Sudo 1.7.5 will ship with an embedded copy of zlib for use on systems that lack it.

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2010-11-03 13:33:25 MDT

The first beta rlease of sudo 1.7.5 is now available
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.7.5b1.tar.gz

Comment 4 Todd C. Miller 2011-03-03 09:55:06 MST

Fixed in sudo 1.7.5 and 1.8.0.