Re: [cobalt-users] logrotate problem

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:56 am, Mark Ward wrote:
> I am trying to rotate my maillog file every week and email the current log
> file to a support address. I have added this entry to the file syslog in
> the directory /etc/logrotate.d but nothing seems to be happening with it,
> can anyone help
>
> /var/log/maillog {
> rotate 5
> size=400k
> mail support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> errors support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> postrotate
>     /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
> endscript
> }

Try
/var/log/maillog {
 weekly
 rotate 1
 size=400k
 mailfirst support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 errors support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 postrotate
     /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
 endscript
 }

mailfirst 
email the just-rotated file instead of the about-to-expire-file 
To test run;
  logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
writes debug info to stdout, does not actually rotate

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