Hi Do any of you guys have a logrotate config file other than the default? I have a Hardy server, with postfix/dovecot on it, and I just noticed that despite me having set 'monthly' in /etc/logrotate.conf (as the global default), the /var/log/mail.* logfiles are still rotated daily.
One of my very first steps when installing a Linux server (centos, fedora, and now ubuntu) is to tweak the logrotate config so it rotates the logs monthly (when on low traffic server), compresses them and keeps 1-3 years of logs. This is MY default tweak and never had a problem with it so far (AFAIK ayways). I was pretty upset when i wanted to install mailgraph to create some graph of older logs (I installed this server a couple of months ago) to see some mail stats, and found out that I have only a week worth of logfiles. I looked at it for a while, didn't find anything wrong with the config, there is no other config in /etc/logrotate.d/ which would mess with /var/log/mail.* files, I didn't find any other crontab entry with other logrotate scripts, the default logrotate uses /etc/logrotate.conf, the machine is pretty much up 24/7, ntp is running, clock is always syncronized. Logrotate does work, because logs get rotated, for example the apache logs are just fine, they get rotated once a month (but then again, there is a separate /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 config for them, which I also tweaked for monthly rotation). /var/log/syslog files are also rotated daily and not monthly. Here is my logrotate.conf file http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/167652/ Maybe it's just some hidden default setting I don't know about, but it bothers me that my maillogs are gone and I can't even set it up right. It looks to me as if the global default isn't being used, or it's overwritten somewhere. Thanks. -- Imre Gergely Yahoo!: gergelyimre ICQ#: 101510959 MSN: gergely_imre GoogleTalk: gergelyimre gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x34525305 -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
