[afnog] Logrotate Problem

[David G. Chima]

Tawanda
I had a similar situation on our mail server. I installed openwebmail. 
This created and entry in the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file for 
openwebmail, but at the same time there was a file
openwebmail.logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d. The system complained of a 
duplicate entry. I hope if you check in your cron log file in /var/log 
or where ever you put your logs you may see a similar complaint. I 
removed that entry in the syslog file and now all my logs are being rotated.

Regards

David


tawanda kavayi wrote:
> 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
>>>       
>>     
>
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