RE: [cobalt-users] Logrotate Broken?

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have asked this question a number of times in the previous months but I
> haven't gotten too much help.  This is what is going on with our Qube3
> Professional.  For some reason after a week 1/2 or 2 weeks of being up
> logrotate does not rotate the /var/log/maillog file properly and
> instead of
> starting a new day with maillog it continues writing the log file to
> maillog.1.  This is a problem since I run SMA and SMA runs its reports by
> looking at /var/log/maillog but the file is empty and so the SMA report is
> also empty.  I tried to fix it by logging in as root and then runnning
> ./logrotate and it runs but I see no output, no errors no nothing and
> Sendmail is still logging to /var/log/maillog.1 instead of the
> maillog file.
> The only solution I have is to actually reboot the machine...  The funny
> thing is that this has been happening mostly on Sundays...  Any
> ideas?  I am
> lost!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Santiago.

I thought logrotate only happened when logs got over a certain size (a
percentage of the users allocation) - so maybe on a sunday you get less
emails and they don't rotate as they don't think they need to.

Phil

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