Just guessing... maybe an issue with the logrotate statefile?
Imre Gergely escribió: > 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. > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
