Original version destroyed journal on command postrotate as files in /var/log.hdd/journal are overwritten by cat. With the patch journal is not damaged anymore.

Description

In original version in postrotate files in /var/log.hdd/journal are deleted by the command

dest="/var/log/$file" cat $file > $dest

as /var/log/journal is a symling to /var/log.hdd/journal files are cated on themselves which ends up with an empty file.

How Has This Been Tested?

check journal by journactl. There is no data earlier than today 0:00. Also "journalctl --verify" shows that journal is damaged.

Checklist:

• [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code
• [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• [x] My changes generate no new warnings
• [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

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