extra bytes in zip archive when used with logrotate

[shimi]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

>
> $ unzip -l file.log.zip
> Archive:  file.log.zip
> warning [file.log.zip]:  16 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
>   (attempting to process anyway)
>   Length      Date    Time    Name
> ---------  ---------- -----   ----
>     71992  08-06-2012 16:05   zipit.10182
> ---------                     -------
>     71992                     1 file
>
> and the archive cannot be opened:
>
>
Maybe I missed it, but, what _are_ the first 16 bytes? Anything
interesting? It sounds like something is sent to the zip that is not
supposed to be sent there, e.g. redirect from stderr, like a notice going
there. Any chance those 16 bytes are human readable ASCII?

-- Shimi
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