Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:54, Agnello George wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > I have set up a spamassissin server . I need to rotate the logs in
> > the /var/log/spamd.log file . I added the following directives in
> > the /etc/logrotate.conf
> >
> > # system-specific logs may be also be configured here. # added by
> > agnello 4 march 08 /var/log/spamd.log {
> > weekly
> > compress
> > rotate 4
> > }
> >
> > Well i jsut want to verify what "rotate 4" really means ---
> > according to the man pages it says "The number of times to rotate a
> > logfile before removing it."
> >
> Sounds pretty straight forward to me - you get the log set:
> log
> log.1
> log.2
> log.3
> log.4
>
> kept with each log moving down the chain before it gets removed.
>
> > Also how do i check if these logs are actually going to be
> > compressed and rotated .
> >
> Dunno about compression. I don't use it, but visiting /var/log and
> looking at file sizes and content after a week or two should show if
> its doing what you expect. Or not. Personally, I think rotation on
> logfile size is more useful than on time, but ymmv.
The compression seems pretty obvious to me:
maillog
maillog.1.gz
maillog.2.gz
maillog.3.gz
maillog.4.gz
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