[CentOS] read permission on rotated logs

Pete Biggs pete at biggs.org.uk
Wed Mar 13 23:25:11 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 15:13 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
> When logs (e.g. /var/log/maillog) are rotated (e.g. to 
> /var/log/maillog-YYYYMDD) is there a way via systemd or whatever

It's logrotate that does it.

You may want to look at the 'prerotate' and 'postrotate' sections of
the logrotate config files - I'm sure you should be able concoct
something that will do what you want.

P.




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