I am using stable for a small personal server. I have postfix
copying all my incoming Email to a file /var/log/mailcopy/chris.mail
as a belt and braces check I get things and to enable me to use
hypermail to create a useful archive of it.
I wanted to rotate that file using logcheck and created a file
/etc/logrotate.d/chrismail:
"/var/log/mailcopy/chris.mail" {
rotate 7
daily
create
missingok
}
That didn't do anything so logged in as root I tried logrotate -d
chrismail which said the file didn't need rotating. So I tried
logrotate -d -f chrismail which said it did everything, all the file
copying etc. and the creation of the new file ... but it didn't.
I've tried that several times with same result.
savelog, interestingly, seems to work fine. /var/log/mailcopy is
world readable and executable and owned and grouped to root.
/var/log/mailcopy/chris.mail is owned and grouped to postfixe (my
user for postfix) and owner and group rw and world r permitted.
I must be looking straight through something, I've read the excellent
man entry for logrotate backwards and forwards and can't see it and
logrotate seems to be continuing to do its duty fine by everything it
should in /var/log
Anyway any ideas?
TIA,
Chris
PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling
and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research,
teaching and consultancy.
Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle
http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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