[PLUG] Mail log not rolling over

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Well here's the entry I have for my maillog. 

/var/log/maillog {
    compress
    dateext
    maxage 365
    rotate 99
    size=+1024k
    notifempty
    missingok
    copytruncate
}

Create a new file called "maillog" in your /etc/logrotate.d directory or 
add it to an existing file in that directory. I'm assuming that your 
/etc/logrotate.conf has an include directive like so:

include /etc/logrotate.d

This causes logrotate to read all of the files in the /etc/logrotate.d 
directory. The man page for "logrotate" defines all the configuration 
values if you're unsure about any of the options.

Tony

On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:08 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > Log rotation for maillog is probably being handled by logrotate
> > (man logrotate).  Your /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/
> > should have more info for you.
>
> Matt,
>
>   I checked logrotate.conf and it has nothing specific to a log.
> logrotate.d has no mention of maillog; perhaps that's the problem.
> That directory has scripts for cron, mars-nwe.log, named, samba,
> squid, junkbuster, mgetty, named.old, sendfax, and syslog. No
> maillog. If there's supposed to be a script there, could you (or
> someone) please mail a copy to me?
>
> > /etc/logrotate.d/syslog should contain an entry for rotating your
> > maillog.
>
>   It does.
>
> > Is crond still running on your system?
>
>   Yes.
>
> > /etc/cron.daily should contain a script that calls logrotate.
>
>   It does.
>
>   Seems to me that /etc/logrotate.d/ lost the script for maillog. Is
> this a reasonable conclusion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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