Steve Kemp said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:45:11PM +0100: > > While /var/log/mail.log is rotated nicely on my (woody) boxes, > > I have no idea which package is responsible for that. > > Any suggestions ? > > /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd > > This script rotates all the files which are output from running: > > /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --weekly > > > That would help me to solve bug #212237. > > If you make sure there is an entry for mail in /etc/syslog.conf then > these files will be output from the 'syslogd-listfiles' and rotated > correctly. > Alternatively you could drop a file in /etc/logrotate.d/ to force > the issue. Please do this instead. I'm not sure why sysklogd does it's own rotation, but most other stuff uses logrotate, and it works well. M
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