Re: [cobalt-developers] old maillog, where?

["Jens-Peter Otto" <jp.otto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07 May 2001 07:46:18 -0400, Robert Brownback wrote:

> > - are the old logfiles stored somewhere? (no, mail.log in the sites logdirectory 
doesn't 
> > help)
> > - if not, what do I have to put (presumably into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog) to keep the 
last 
> > thirty days of log?
> 
>  The current mail log is located at /var/log/maillog. Archived logs are
> /var/log/maillog.1, /var/log/maillog.2, etc.. unless you have
> compression set (I'm not sure what the default is because I always
> modify /etc/logrotate.conf to compress log files). If compress is
> uncommented in /etc/logrotate.conf it would be /var/log/maillog.1.gz,
> /var/log/maillog.2.gz, etc. 

there is one archive, maillog.1.gz. That however covers only yesterday. 

>  If you need to view a compressed log file then run gzip (man gzip) on
> the file to decompress it. 

that's not necessary, since "less" does it automatically


>  The number of logs kept are set in /etc/logrotate.conf, the default
> being 'rotate 4' meaning the last four weeks plus the current week's
> log.

My logrotate.conf states "weekly" , I just changed the default "rotate 1" to "4". 
It seems however, that there is some other program (or config-file) responsible for 
maintaining the maillog, since my maillog definitely contains only one day.