Logrotate and MailScanner

[Rick Gutlon]

I believe you need to restart cron in order for the
changes in your logrotate.conf file to take effect. An
example would be /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart

Regards -

--- Mister PO <misterpo at IFRANCE.COM> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> My Mailscanner RedHat 9 Linux server logs its
> activity in the
> /var/log/maillog file.
>
> I have added the following section to
> /etc/logrotate.conf to purge logs daily :
>
> /var/log/maillog {
> daily
> create
> rotate 3
> }
>
> but my log file is still growing and logrotate
> doesn't do its job.
>
> Do I need stop and start MailScanner to help
> logrotate do its job ?
>
> I know there is a postrotate instruction, but is
> there prerotate one ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> PO.
>
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