Re: logrotate and postfix

> 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 looked in /etc/logrotate.d and there is no config named mail and I
also looked in /etc/logrotate.conf and there is no mention of mail.


The goal is to keep 1 years worth of mail and to nightly rotate the mail
logs and to name the file according to the date.



Jim




On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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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