Re: archive rolling/cron jobs

[Harshal Chhaya <harshal@mumbai-central.com>]

Earl Hood wrote:
> On July 21, 2003 at 17:27, Harshal Chhaya wrote:
> > I don't think that mhonarc can handle log rolling on its own so you
> > have 2 choices - either create/adapt a script that manages the archives
> > for you or use a tool like rotatelogs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/
> > rotatelogs.html) or logrotate (http://www.rt.com/man/logrotate.8.html).
> 
> I think two different things are getting mixed up here.  MHonArc
> archives are not logs, therefore, using log rotating software will
> not work with mhonarc archives.


Sorry for any confusion. I used 'logs' above to refer to 'archived email' 
not the archive files generated and maintained by mhonarc. For eg. I keep
my list email archived by month. The saved email for the current month is
stored in <list_name>-arc and previous months are stored by name 
(june2003-arc, may2003-arc etc.). What I was trying to say is that
this 'rotation' of archived email can be done by software that
handles other logs. Creating date-based archives from mhonarc will
have to be done in your script (or by mharc which I have not used).

I hope this makes matters clearer.

Regards,
Harshal



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