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hanj
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: daily logrorate of mail.log breaks mail.log

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Hello

I wanted to change my present logrotate configuration for mail to rotate on a daily basis, and store 8 logs compressed. I changed my mail.log script from:

Code:

/var/log/mail.log {
missingok
weekly
compress
}

to

Code:

/var/log/mail.log {
missingok
daily
compress
rotate 8
}

Now, every night I get a empty mail.log. Restarting syslog corrects the problem.. but not sure why the rotation is breaking the logging? Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

I'm using the following:
app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.6
mail-mta/postfix-2.4.5
app-admin/logrotate-3.7.2

Thanks!
hanji
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: daily logrorate of mail.log breaks mail.log

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Try it as

Code:

/var/log/mail.log {
missingok
daily
compress
rotate 8
create
}

or

Code:

/var/log/mail.log {
missingok
daily
compress
rotate 8
copytruncate
}

maybe
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