Log rotation question

[Julian Field]

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service MailScanner reload
will do MailScanner, and the code for sendmail should already be in  
the logrotate configuration.

On 7 Mar 2006, at 22:08, Tom Combs wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>  I'm working on my logrotate configuration under RHEL 3 to rotate my
>  sendmail and mailscanner logs. Is it recommended to stop the sendmail
>  and MS processes  before doing the rotation of the logs? I would  
> think
>  that this would be a good practice if not actually a requirement.  
> My only
>  concern is that the nefu process monitor will see that sendmail/ms  
> is down
>  and send a page, not a good thing.   Thanks!
>
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