Log file rotation
Damien Hull
dhull at digitaloverload.net
Wed Aug 30 01:10:49 UTC 2006
I've got Ubuntu Dapper installed and configured as a mail server. I'm
using Postfix as the MTA. My problem is with /var/log/mail.log. I would
like to keep the log file for a week and then have it rotate. However,
this isn't happening. It seems to be rotating when it wants to.
I've checked /etc/cron.weekly and sysklogd is there. I ran the command
to list the files that will be rotated and mail.log is in the list.
I have a test server with the same setup. It's only a test server so it
doesn't get any mail. The strange thing is that /var/log/mail rotates
once a week. Not mid week or when ever it wants like our production server.
Can someone tell me what's going on here? Again, I want /var/log/mail to
rotate once a week.
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