Re: [cobalt-users] /var/log/maillog file empty

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:23, Santiago Montalvan wrote:
> I have asked this question before and nobody has been able to help me yet
> but I am going to ask again and hopefully somebody can help me.  The
> machine I am talking about is a Qube3 Professional w/ RAID1, 512MB of RAM. 
> For some reason every Sunday (yes, each and every Sunday) the
> /var/log/maillog file is empty.  It continues to write the log information
> to maillog.1 instead of starting the day with /var/log/maillog.  This is
> really annoying as I look at the SMA reports everyday but on Sundays the
> SMA report is empty because the maillog file is empty and I have no way to
> fix this but to reboot the server and then the maillog file is back to
> normal.  Should I not reboot the server and let it run like this all the
> way until Monday and then see if on Monday the logs start being written to
> /var/log/maillog like it should?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Santiago.

Sounds like sendmail is not getting "restarted" (stop/start) after the log is 
rotated.  Check that you can enter the command:
	 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

and it "restarts" sendmail,
then check /etc/logrotate.d and grep for sendmail, edit that file (should be 
the one named syslog) and make sure that after (postrotate) the 
/var/log/maillog file is rotated, that it restarts sendmail and not just 
syslogd (as I have seen on many Cobalt systems).

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Larry Smith
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