[afnog] Logrotate Problem

[tawanda kavayi]

Hi,

The /etc/logrotate.d/syslog files are similar. Im wondering if Im
missing some other config file that relates specifically to the mail log
files.

Regards,

Tawanda


Peter Nyamukusa wrote:
> Hi Tawanda,
> 
> I here is a potion of my syslog file and it looks pretty similar to yours,
> all my log files are being rotated and compress to .gz in /var/log/ since
> this is a production mail server I have opted to delete the rotated files
> manually when I no longer have use for them other wise its also possible to
> do a script that can clean up say rotated files older than 30 days.
> 
> Please compare and advise
> 
> }
> 
> /var/log/mail /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err {
>     compress
>     dateext
>     maxage 365
>     rotate 99
>     missingok
>     notifempty
>     size +4096k
>     create 640 root root
>     sharedscripts
>     postrotate
>         /etc/init.d/syslog reload
>     endscript
> }
> 
> /var/log
> 
> mail-20070903.gz      mail.info-20070916.gz  mail.warn-20071004.gz
> warn-20070907.gz
> mail-20070904.gz      mail.info-20070917.gz  mcelog
> warn-20070909.gz
> mail-20070905.gz      mail.info-20070918.gz  messages
> warn-20070911.gz
> mail-20070906.gz      mail.info-20070919.gz  messages-20070107.gz
> warn-20070913.gz
> mail-20070907.gz      mail.info-20070920.gz  messages-20070519.gz
> warn-20070915.gz
> mail-20070908.gz      mail.info-20070921.gz  messages-20070911.gz
> warn-20070917.gz
> mail-20070909.gz      mail.info-20070922.gz  net-snmpd.log
> warn-20070919.gz
> mail-20070910.gz      mail.info-20070923.gz  net-snmpd.log-20070324.gz
> warn-20070921.gz
> mail-20070911.gz      mail.info-20070924.gz  net-snmpd.log-20070404.gz
> warn-20070923.gz
> mail-20070912.gz      mail.info-20070925.gz  net-snmpd.log-20070415.gz
> warn-20070925.gz
> mail-20070913.gz      mail.info-20070926.gz  net-snmpd.log-20070427.gz
> warn-20070927.gz
> 
> Cheers,
> ------------------------------------
> Peter Nyamukusa (MCSE, CCIP, A+)
>  
>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: afnog-bounces at afnog.org [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org] On Behalf
> Of
>> tawanda kavayi
>> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:46 AM
>> To: afnog at afnog.org
>> Subject: [afnog] Logrotate Problem
>>
>>
>> Hi, hope you are all well.
>>
>> I'm running a postfix mail server on OpenSuSe 10.2. The postfix is
>> running under the Sophos Puremessage for Unix package. My problem is
>> that all my mail log files in /var/log are not being rotated. These are
>> mail, mail-info and mail-warn. However, all other log files like
>> messages, etc, are being rotated.
>>
>> I have attached my config files as follows:
>>
>> logrotate (/etc/cron.daily/logrotate)
>> logrotate.conf (/etc/logrotate.conf)
>> syslog ( /etc/logrotate.d/syslog)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tawanda
> 
>