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Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log



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 !

-- 
Rick Nelson
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        -- Anonymous



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