Re: logrotate and postfix

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 elemint@theriver.com wrote:

> When I look in /etc/logroate.d I do not seek a postfix logrotate config
> file, I do see a base-config file though is that what posfix logs will be
> rotated according to?

By default, postfix logs using the LOG_MAIL syslog facility. And probably
your syslogd's syslog.conf defines where those mail logs are saved to.

Look in your logrotate configs for "mail".

> I want to keep a years worth of logs and have them rotated nightly and
> then named by the date they are rotated, what is the best way to do this?

Maybe something like:

/var/log/mail.log {
  rotate 365
  daily
  postrotate
    /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
  endscript
}

I don't think logrotate can name if with a custom filename.


Jeremy C. Reed

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