Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Paul E Condon wrote:

> On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST)
> > > Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
> >
> > > [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox?
> >
> > root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010
> > (yes, I know, bad me)
>
> A lot has changed since I was skilled at Debian install, but I
> remember that there was a way to automatically forward all emails
> that are sent to root to some other mailbox, like your own user
> mailbox. That way you would have become aware of your problem
> back in june 2010. Whatever you do to fix logrotate problem, don't
> forget to root mail forwarding to a place where you regularly
> read your mail. Do this by adding a line to /etc/aliases (I think)

Actually, I had this implemented (but forgot all about it...).
The problem was that my mail client wasn't monitoring my local 
mailbox. (Yes, I know, emberassing... I'm not a skilled sys-admin.)
After the inquiries by Reco and Shawn I checked it and found the said 
messages.

Following your suggestion I edited /etc/aliases such that root mail 
will be sent to my personal mailbox, and a copy will be saved locally 
in root's mailbox.  Now the root entry looks like this

root: root,personal@email.address.org

Hopefully I did it right.

Thanks for the pointer!

Itay