Submitted 21-Aug-00 by Eugenio Diaz:
> The problem is that using an "*" alone would cause
> **all** files in the dir to be rotated, including the
> previosly rotated files, and as a result you will get
> more and more files with longer and longer filenames
> each day. 

That would definitely appear to be the case, I now have over 42,000
files in /var/log/mail.  No wonder I'm running out of space in /var.

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