[PLUG] Mail log not rolling over

[Matt Alexander]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sat, 11 May 2002, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
>
> > Well here's the entry I have for my maillog.
> >
> > /var/log/maillog {
> >     compress
> >     dateext
> >     maxage 365
> >     rotate 99
> >     size=+1024k
> >     notifempty
> >     missingok
> >     copytruncate
> > }
>
>   Thanks, Tony. Looking at all the files in /etc/logrotate.d I see a wide
> range of options being used.
>
>   So, tomorrow morning I should see a new maillog, I suppose.

Maybe it's just me, but "rotate 99" seems a bit excessive.  ;-)