That wont do what you want.  -Mr says rotate logs every n hours.

So -Mr 24 is more likely, but when does that start.  The first hour change
(xx:00) or 24 hours after xmail starts?  Davide?

Rob :-)

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> Hi,
>
> Can someone explain why XMail are rotating the logs at 23:00h by default?
>
> Now to rotate the logs at 00:00h I need to put the option -Mr 0000 to call
> XMail or -Mr 2400?
>
> Can someone explain?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 30 Oct 2003, Achim Schmidt wrote:
>
> >
> > Am Don, 2003-10-30 um 01.08 schrieb Rob Arends:
> > > Achim, first I must say, it looks very good.
> > >
> > > This extract from your Install.txt worries me.
> > >
> > > ! Also the logfiles must have the current date in its name (e.g.
> > > pop3-200310250000),
> > > ! (If your logs are rotated at 2300 you will have to create
> symlinks, like
> > > ! pop3-200310250000 linked to pop3-200310242300.)
> > >
> > > What happens if "-Mr 01" (Set log rotate hours step) is used,
> this will mean
> > > that not all the logs will be read by RDDtool.
> > >
> > > I would suggest that files smtp-*, pop3-*, etc are read, that way the
> > > problem of 2300 rotations are also resolved.
> > >
> >
> > currently the last 4 digits of the logs name are ignored (e.g.
> > pop3-20031030*) - but greping all logfiles is a cool idea (i really
> > didn't think about that yet) - it only brings along a little overhead.
> >
> > i just tried
> > $ grep "2003-10-30 01:0" /var/MailRoot/logs/smtp-* | wc
> >
> > this simply lasted for about 20 seconds, because i have logfiles since
> > 2001 sitting in the directory...
> >
> > So I'll give a try for logs-YYYY*
> >
> > Rob, Thanks for the idea!
> >
> > - Achim
> >
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