Re: Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs
On Monday 30 January 2006 12:03 am, Simo Kauppi wrote:
> >
> > 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
I created that script, called it postfix and tested it out and it runs but not
the way I wanted it to. The following is the script that I used:
/var/log/mail.* {
daily
missingok
rotate 28
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 root adm
sharedscripts
}
It works but not the way I wan it to. Here is a list of the mail logs after
three days:
user@foo:~$ ls -lh /var/log/mail.*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2006-02-07 03:30 /var/log/mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 88 2006-02-06 15:40 /var/log/mail.err.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2006-02-02 08:30 /var/log/mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.3M 2006-02-08 09:13 /var/log/mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2006-02-08 03:30 /var/log/mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 4.9M 2006-02-08 03:30 /var/log/mail.log.1.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 477K 2006-02-08 03:30 /var/log/mail.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 23K 2006-02-08 09:11 /var/log/mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2006-02-08 03:30 /var/log/mail.warn.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 52K 2006-02-08 03:25 /var/log/mail.warn.1.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 7.5K 2006-02-08 03:30 /var/log/mail.warn.2.gz
Notice that it put a .1 at the end of a log already with a .1 and the
original .1 is 0 bytes in size. I don't know why this is happening but I
need it to be sequential like the following:
mail.log
mail.log.0
mail.log.1.gz
mail.log.2.gz
.... etc.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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