On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 14:05 -0400, martes wrote: > Thanks for the tips guys. > > In response to the simpler of the two inquiries, after using the > syslog switch, I am only able to get the logs sent directly to > spamd.log, so the frequent archiving that syslogd does is not going to > be done for this file. I guess this is good enough for now. > Don't forget that you should also let logrotate know about your new log file so that it will be managed along with the other log files.
You need to do this regardless of whether you use the -s option or change the syslog configuration. If you don't, the file will simply grow until the partition that contains /var is full. Martin
