[CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4

Michael Grinnell grinnell at american.edu
Wed Sep 27 21:22:41 UTC 2006


doh

That was it.

Thanks,
Michael

On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:47 PM, replies-lists- 
centos at listmail.innovate.net wrote:

> look in /etc/cron.daily (which is invoked by /etc/crontab), i suspect
> you'll find a logrotate script there.
>
>
>   - Rick
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 04:42:30 PM -0400
>> 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.
>>
>> ---
>> [root at 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 at penguin ~]# crontab -l
>> no crontab for root
>> [root at penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/
>> total 0
>> [root at penguin ~]#
>> ---
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
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> ---------- End Original Message ----------





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