On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:03:04AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> > If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need
> > to discourage multilog from automatically rolling by making the size
> > setting absurdly large. Of course by doing this you remove a major
> > advantage of multilog, namely resource control.
>
> Resource control is a nice idea, but really I mean how many admins have way
> more than enough disk space to handle logs? Even if a day's mail log reached
> 50mb (we have about 200 users, so this figure is pretty damn huge for one
> day), then on a standard 9gb drive we can still fit 180 days logs, not
On my popserver (which does local deliveries, forwards, and some big
alias expansions) with just under 40.000 users, I *normally* do about
40mb a day, but one fat mailbomb (which happens too often) and that number
easily grows to a 100-200.
Greetz, Peter
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