Log file rotation

Damien Hull dhull at digitaloverload.net
Wed Aug 30 02:29:39 UTC 2006


Scott J. Henson wrote:
> Damien Hull wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> <snip>
>   
>> Can someone tell me what's going on here? Again, I want /var/log/mail to 
>> rotate once a week.
>>
>>     
>
> Try /etc/logrotate.d/postfix.
>
>   

Postfix isn't in there. It seems the mail.log is handled by sysklogd.




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