> There is *no* need to have an extra mail file for logrotate, just get rid of it.
> BTW: your question should have gone to the MailScanner list, anyway.
Well, I can see how that *might* be correct, but take MailScanner out of the equation, it's uses the standard maillog log file. On a stock setup, /var/log/maillog rotates to /var/log/maillog, /var/log/maillog.0, /var/log/maillog.1 and so on. I want to change that to use dateext and compress it, so hence the /etc/logrotate.d/mail file. So if I only wanted to simply rotate the maillog file with those parameters, this would be the appropriate list.
Getting this error, clued me in:
error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/maillog
The more appropriate *fix* in this situation is to remove /var/log/mail from /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and allow /var/logrotate.d/mail to handle the rotate. Now all works as desired. I do not remember doing that on my last mailserver setup, but that was sometime ago.
Thanks
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ryan Ivey wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:47:01 -0500:
Look in the syslog file for logrotate where the original content for your
> The file rotates correctly if I manually force it, however my logs won't
> update until I restart syslogd. In other words, the new /var/log/maillog
> isn't created after the logrotate. I have to manually restart syslogd and
> manually touch /var/log/maillog.
"recipe" is. There is *no* need to have an extra mail file for logrotate,
just get rid of it. Instead change MailScanner logging to a different file
and then use something like that. Look at the last line!
/var/log/mailscanner.log {
weekly
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
size=+4096k
notifempty
missingok
copytruncate
}
BTW: your question should have gone to the MailScanner list, anyway.
Kai
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