Re: exim+logrotate
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:09:33PM -0200, chiappa@centroin.com.br wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a few questions, and I will appreciate very much any help:
>
> 1) I have entries for exim in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily/ and
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. I can understand the last entry, it starts exim when I
> dial-up my ISP. Why the first two?
if you've your ppp connection permanently open, it would only flush
it's queue if you dial-in, which appears rather seldom if you've a
'permanent' internet connection, so it has to be dony thru cron, so
this will assure it will be done every day at least.
BTW: this entries are useless if exim is ran in daemon mode, since it
will flush it's queues itself. it can be useful if you explicitly want
to flush it, just before you disconnect for example.
>
> 2) I have an entry for logrotate in /etc/cron.daily, this entry starts
> logrotate with /etc/logrotate.conf as its argument. The file
> logrotate.conf is at the end of this message. I would like to know if it
> is a normal logrotate.conf file, or if it is necessary to change anything,
> because there exist logs in /var/log with entries older than 4 weeks...
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> Marcelo
>
> logrotate.conf file:
> ***********************************************************
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
>
> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
> rotate 4
>
> # send errors to root
> errors root
>
> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
> create
>
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> #compress
>
> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
>
> # no packages own wtmp or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
> monthly
> create 0664 root utmp
> logrotate.conf: unmodified, readonly: line 1
> rotate 1
> }
>
> /var/log/btmp {
> missingok
> monthly
> create 0664 root utmp
> rotate 1
> }
>
> # system-specific logs may be configured here
>
> ******************************************************
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