Re: [cobalt-users] Empty maillog file, not rotating

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> For some reason our Qube3 does not rotate to a new maillog file once the
day
> changes and keeps logging the new day on maillog.1, any ideas why?  It has
> done it twice in an interval of probably 40 days.  I realize because SMA
> gets its statistics from /var/log/maillog and I went to look at it today
and
> the html file generated by SMA was empty as well, I went and checked at
the
> maillog file and it was empty.  I went and checked and maillog.1 file and
it
> was logging today's activities instead of rotating to the maillog file
like
> it should.  Any ideas why this is happening?  It doesn't happen too often
> and when it does happen I just reboot the server and then it finally
rotates
> to the maillog file, any ideas how I can rotate it without having to
reboot?
> Luckily it does not happen too often but I would like to get it fixed.
> Thanks for any help!

sounds like your daily logrotation is broke...
you might want to run it manaully and see if it produces an error message

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

Zeffie
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