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Re: Logrotate problems



Florian Kulzer wrote:

You can run

/usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --all

to get a list of all log files that are under the control of sysklogd.

If you want to change the behavior you have to look at

/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd
/etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd

The relevant lines in these two scripts are:

savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null
savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 4 $LOG >/dev/null

Adding the -l option will prevent compression; -c controls how many old
snapshots are kept.

Florian,

Thanks! With the listfiles-command i can see that mail.log is under control by sysklogd.

I can see the corresponding lines in cron.daily(and weekly)/sysklogd.

My question: How do i exclude mail.log from sysklogd?

Is there a reason to run sysklogd instead of logrotate? Seems rather pointless to have both?

Thank you

/ Martin



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