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<font size=3>At 11:12 12/04/01 +0800, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> in /var/log,maillog file is
nearly 270M, i set up my server by default about 7 month ago,can this automatically
rotate the </font></blockquote><br>
<br>
*** And that doesn't make you worry? A plain ASCII file of 270Mb...!?? I don't even
want to know how you read that log. Opening a 270Mb log file in vi is probably an
experience.<br>
<br>
The way I see it you have to choices: Either you disable logging because apparently
your not reading them anyway or you have a look in /etc/logrotate.conf and try to see
why it doesn't rotate anymore.<br>
<br>
I advice you to stop syslogd, either copy the "message" file manually to any
place you want to keep it and zero the original (> message) after which you should
run logrotate manually<br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>logrotate
/etc/logrotate.conf<br>
<br>
to see if it gives you errors. Don't try to experiment with the 270Mb file in place
because you're probably going to freeze your machine.<br>
<br>
Good luck and keep us informed about the results.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Zoran.<br>
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