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gpreston
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 Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:23 am Post subject: Problem with Postfix and Logrotate |
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Hey everyone,
I've got Postfix 2.0.19 running on a Gentoo server, and it is logging to the default logs (/var/log/mail.err, mail.info, mail.log, and mail.warn). I've got a relatively decent amount of mail traffic going through this server and the logs tend to get rather large over time, so I set up Logrotate 3.6.5-r1 to rotate the logs for me to keep them rather small. I've added the following to my /etc/logrotate.conf file to do the job:
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/var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn {
rotate 4
size=1M
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/postfix stop > /dev/null
/etc/init.d/postfix start > /dev/null
endscript
}
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Now, when this runs, for some reason Postfix continues to write to the logfile that was just backed up to a new file, for example /var/log/mail.err.1 and ignores writing to the new empty log file unless I actually reboot the entire server.
I am also using syslog-ng on this server.
Does anyone know what is causing this type of problem? Do you need to look at more logs? |
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Rav70
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Joined: 11 Feb 2004
Posts: 607
Location: Poland
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Problem with Postfix and Logrotate |
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| gpreston wrote: | Hey everyone,
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/var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn {
rotate 4
size=1M
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/postfix stop > /dev/null
/etc/init.d/postfix start > /dev/null
endscript
}
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Now, when this runs, for some reason Postfix continues to write to the logfile that was just backed up to a new file, for example /var/log/mail.err.1 and ignores writing to the new empty log file unless I actually reboot the entire server.
I am also using syslog-ng on this server.
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As it is not postfix but syslog-ng actually writing to the logs you have to reload syslog-ng instead of postfix, like that:
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/var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn {
rotate 4
size=1M
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
}
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Regards,
Rav
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