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 at conactive.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091109/f5b6c925/attachment-0003.html>