Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 deblists@linuxia.de wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:45:11 +0100
> > Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:18:27PM +0200, deblists@linuxia.de wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > I wonder if both rotating methods may conflict ...
>
> Indeed they would :( BTDT, if you put something in logrotate.d that is
> also in syslog.conf, the effect is a double rotation !
Yes. I reassigned the bug to the syslog flavour used by the bug submitter.
Bye
Racke
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