On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:32:47PM -0600, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:06 am, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:17:07AM -0600, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > > > Currently, I am running a Debian Sarge 3.1 as an MTA server using Postfix > > > 2.1.5-9. My questions pertains to the logging of mail events from > > > Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs. > > > > > > Below is my syslog.conf configuration. Also, where do you specify when > > > the mail.log files are rotated since it only keeps 7 days worth and I > > > would like 4 weeks worth? > > > > I don't use postfix, but I assume, that it puts its logrotate > > configuration in the standard place, which is /etc/logrotate.d/ > > directory (or /etc/logrotate.conf file). Look for postfix in there. > > It has a line, which says 'weekly', change it to 'monthly' (which means > > that log files are rotated the first time logrotate is run in a month). > > I'm not sure if it is possible to set it to exactly four weeks. See > > man logrotate for other possible options to use there. > > > > HTH > > Simo > > Thank you so much!! That had been bothering me for a while now and your answer > did the trick. The funny thing is about the postfix install, I didn't find a > syslog entry anywhere on my system. I thought I'd find an entry > in /etc/logrotate.d like where exim4-base has one, but there isn't one. > > If I write my own in /etc/logrotate.d similar to exim's or another service's > settings, will this override the current behavior now? Hi, Yes, I believe so. The global option is 'weekly' and files in the /etc/logrotate.d directory override that. I.e. if postifx doesn't have logrotation defined anywhere else, you can just create a file in logrotate.d and that should do the trick. Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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