> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Grinnell
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:43 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every
> Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes.
> AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal
> install, so I'm assuming this is a default process.
>
> ---
> [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill*
> -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog
> -rw------- 1 root root 526100566 Sep 24 04:03 /var/log/maillog.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 539020377 Sep 17 04:03 /var/log/maillog.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 513822843 Sep 10 04:03 /var/log/maillog.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 746455304 Sep 3 04:03
> /var/log/maillog.4 [root@penguin ~]# crontab -l no crontab
> for root [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/ total 0
> [root@penguin ~]#
> ---
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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A stock install of CentOS 4 has logrotate running.
>From the man page:
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after
accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory.
Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d
direc-
tory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)).
If you look at /etc/crontab you'll see the run-parts language calling
every script in the /etc/cron.daily|weekly|monthly directories.
alex
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