Thanks Kai for the input.
There is *no* need to have an extra mail file for logrotate, just get rid
of it.
BTW: your question should have gone to the MailScanner list, anyway.
Well, I can see how that *might* be correct, but take MailScanner out of the equation, it's uses the standard maillog log file. On a stock setup, /var/log/maillog rotates to /var/log/maillog, /var/log/maillog.0, /var/log/maillog.1 and so on. I want to change that to use dateext and compress it, so hence the /etc/logrotate.d/mail file. So if I only wanted to simply rotate the maillog file with those parameters, this would be the appropriate list.
Getting this error, clued me in: error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/maillog
The more appropriate *fix* in this situation is to remove /var/log/mail from /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and allow /var/logrotate.d/mail to handle the rotate. Now all works as desired. I do not remember doing that on my last mailserver setup, but that was sometime ago.
Thanks
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.comwrote:
Ryan Ivey wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:47:01 -0500:
The file rotates correctly if I manually force it, however my logs won't update until I restart syslogd. In other words, the new /var/log/maillog isn't created after the logrotate. I have to manually restart syslogd
and
manually touch /var/log/maillog.
Look in the syslog file for logrotate where the original content for your "recipe" is. There is *no* need to have an extra mail file for logrotate, just get rid of it. Instead change MailScanner logging to a different file and then use something like that. Look at the last line!
/var/log/mailscanner.log { weekly compress dateext maxage 365 rotate 99 size=+4096k notifempty missingok copytruncate }
BTW: your question should have gone to the MailScanner list, anyway.
Kai
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