Logrotate and MailScanner

[Steen, Glenn]

Um, no... That is generally not how it's done. True,
logrotate is run from cron, but the only time you need
inform cron is when you add logrotate as such, not when you
change logrotate.conf (ex: on most linux distros the logrotate
command is run from a script in /etc/cron.daily (which are run
by the runparts thing), and is invoked like
logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
... which would lead to changes to that file (or any file it
references) to be automatically included).

What is needed is to either change a preexisting entry for
syslogd files (ex: many linux distros would have that in
/etc/logrotate.d/syslogd), or creating one.

-- Glenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Rick Gutlon
> Sent: den 11 januari 2005 11:18
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Logrotate and MailScanner
> 
> 
> 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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