[BlueOnyx:16485] Re: Sendmail - Maillog

[Chris Heiner]

Thank you Jim!

> On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Jim Scott <jscott at infoconex.com> wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
>> Is there a way to have to Maillog reset nightly (like the older servers) as I 
>> have to review it for errors and its a week old and massive. 
> 
> You can change the default behavior for all logs OR just the maillog.
> 
> To make the change so it happens for all logs modify /etc/logrotate.conf and change 
> setting from weekly to daily. 
> 
> 
> # rotate log files weekly
> #weekly
> daily
> 
> 
> If you want to modify the maillog then go into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and add daily 
> inside the brackets. Note as you can see cron, maillog, messages, secure and spooler 
> will all be affected.
> 
> 
> /var/log/cron
> /var/log/maillog
> /var/log/messages
> /var/log/secure
> /var/log/spooler
> {
>    daily
>    sharedscripts
>    postrotate
>        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
>    endscript
> }
> 
> 
> 
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