On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:04:12 +0100 kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) wrote:
> Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> writes: > > > Hi Kamil, > > > > On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> I have logrotate with config (excerpt) > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > >> compress > > > > […] > > > >> And since some days I started to receive *compressed* old syslog > >> files :( instead uncompressed ones. > > > > If you have the "compress" directive there you should expect to get > > compressed logs. > Sorry, I did not write precisely. > I started to receive compressed old logs by *mail*. > So far, there were simple text in mail. > > I understand, that old files on disk are compressed. > Presumably you should be emailed the file after rotation, when it has been closed, i.e. the version you should get is <logfile>.1 which if originating with rsyslog, should not be compressed. <logfile>.2 and subsequent should be compressed. -- Joe
