-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Grinnell Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:43 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes. AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal install, so I'm assuming this is a default process.

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[root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill* -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog -rw------- 1 root root 526100566 Sep 24 04:03 /var/log/maillog.1 -rw------- 1 root root 539020377 Sep 17 04:03 /var/log/maillog.2 -rw------- 1 root root 513822843 Sep 10 04:03 /var/log/maillog.3 -rw------- 1 root root 746455304 Sep 3 04:03 /var/log/maillog.4 [root@penguin ~]# crontab -l no crontab for root [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/ total 0 [root@penguin ~]#

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Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

A stock install of CentOS 4 has logrotate running.

From the man page:

Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d direc- tory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)).

If you look at /etc/crontab you'll see the run-parts language calling every script in the /etc/cron.daily|weekly|monthly directories.

alex