From 67a94733a9b3eec7e325dcdbbf411473770d36bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Skytt=C3=A4?= <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:01:22 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] logrotate: Do not rotate empty logs

As a useful side effect, prevents "Unable to contact server. Is it
running?" mails from cron when fail2ban hasn't been (intentionally)
running nor thus logging anything either.
---
 ChangeLog                | 1 +
 files/fail2ban-logrotate | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2fec408a..811473e7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ ver. 0.9.4 (2015/XX/XXX) - wanna-be-released
 - New Features:
 
 - Enhancements:
+   * Do not rotate empty log files
 
 ver. 0.9.3 (2015/08/01) - lets-all-stay-friends
 ----------
diff --git a/files/fail2ban-logrotate b/files/fail2ban-logrotate
index ef4da852..8d94a8b3 100644
--- a/files/fail2ban-logrotate
+++ b/files/fail2ban-logrotate
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 /var/log/fail2ban.log {
     rotate 7
     missingok
+    notifempty
     compress
     postrotate
       /usr/bin/fail2ban-client flushlogs  1>/dev/null || true