On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:55:38 +0200, Martin wrote:
> Kevin Coyner wrote:
>
> >Try it as follows:
> >
> >/var/log/mail.log {
> > weekly
> > nocompress
> > rotate 4
> > missingok
> > create 640 root adm
> > postrotate
> > #reload syslog
> > /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload
> > #reload postfix
> > /etc/init.d/postfix reload
> > endscript
> >}
> >
> >
> >As I read the man page for logrotate, in one of the examples it has
> >nocompress after endscript just as yours does. The man explains it
> >by saying the log files will NOT be compressed if an error occurs on
> >more than one file. I presume your files are not encountering
> >errors, therefore they are compressed because you have the
> >'nocompress' option following the 'endscript' option.
> >
> >Kevin
>
> Kevin,
>
> Unfortunately one of my log-files got compressed again, so this didn't
> work at all.
>
> I've read something in another NG about sysklogd may be overtaking
> logrotate. Could this be the solution?
>
> Do you (or anyone else) know how to check this or to disable this for
> the particular log in question?
You can run
/usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --all
to get a list of all log files that are under the control of sysklogd.
If you want to change the behavior you have to look at
/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd
/etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd
The relevant lines in these two scripts are:
savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null
savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 4 $LOG >/dev/null
Adding the -l option will prevent compression; -c controls how many old
snapshots are kept.
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Regards,
Florian
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