[PLUG] logs not rotating

[Doug Davis]

there should be a line in /etc/cron.daily that says logrotate, This will
get run when the run-parts  daily script runs. 

Doug

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 07:45, Sean Whitney wrote:
> You might try to force the logroll, there is a option under the logrotate man 
> page.
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Friday 07 June 2002 04:46, you hammered at the keyboard:
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> > > It's all going to depend what sort of logrotate configuration you have
> > > for your mail log. Most of the time I think things are configured to
> > > rotate a file once it exceeds it's maximum allowed size. If the file
> > > size isn't exceeded then it wouldn't be rotated. There is a "daily"
> > > directive that you can specify in the logrotate configuration for your
> > > mail log to cause the file to be rotated on a daily basis.
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> >   I had both weekly and a maximum size specified; just changed it to daily
> > for maillog. But, ... *all* my logs have been growing since 2/17/02, none
> > have apparently rotated even though in /etc/logrotate.d/ each is directed
> > to rotate weekly.
> >
> >   This is why I'm trying to better understand what's going on. The proper
> > directives are there but they're not being followed. For example, yesterday
> > afternoon, I changed the /etc/logrotate.d/maillog from 'weekly' to 'daily'.
> > This morning's log still summarizes everything since I initiated postfix.
> > Something's not right.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> >
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