Hello,
I've got a Centos 5.4 box that is not rotating it's mail logs. I just
found out about this, the file is considerably large. I've included my
log rotation configs if anyone has any suggestions i'm open to them.
Thanks.
Dave.

/etc/rsyslog.conf:
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
# don't log clamd messages
*.info;ftp.none;clamd.none;mail.none;authpriv.none ;cron.none
/var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.* /var/log/maillog

# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
#uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log

# log ftp stuff separately
ftp.* /var/log/ftp.log

/etc/logrotate.d/syslog:
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler
/var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}

logrotate.conf:
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
minsize 1M
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a Centos 5.4 box that is not rotating it's mail logs. I just
> found out about this, the file is considerably large. I've included my
> log rotation configs if anyone has any suggestions i'm open to them.

I had a system, set up very minimally by someone else, exhibit this
behavior. In my case, turned out that the "crontabs" package was not
installed, which has the general cron config. Check that?

--wes
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Crontabs package is indeed installed.
Thanks.
Dave.


On 3/14/10, Wes Shull <wes.shull@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a Centos 5.4 box that is not rotating it's mail logs. I just
>> found out about this, the file is considerably large. I've included my
>> log rotation configs if anyone has any suggestions i'm open to them.
>
> I had a system, set up very minimally by someone else, exhibit this
> behavior. In my case, turned out that the "crontabs" package was not
> installed, which has the general cron config. Check that?
>
> --wes
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On Sunday 14 March 2010 20:38:23 David Mehler wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Crontabs package is indeed installed.

Various things:

1- Check that indeed crond is running (ps -ef | grep cron)
2- Check that the logrotate script is indeed in the /etc/cron.daily|hourly|
weekly directories...
3- the best one: run it manually by doing:
logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.conf

..and see for yourself why isn't running.

HTH,
Jorge
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Cron is indeed installed and started. I had a logrotate script in cron.daily.
When i ran logrotate -d -f logrotate.conf first it failed to complete
with an error having to do with ftp, corrected that, reran it, this
time it completed successfully but the major file had not rotated. The
script claimed rotation of the maillog* files replacing 5 with 4, but
the large maillog file didn't go away.
Thanks.
Dave.


On 3/14/10, Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 14 March 2010 20:38:23 David Mehler wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. Crontabs package is indeed installed.
>
> Various things:
>
> 1- Check that indeed crond is running (ps -ef | grep cron)
> 2- Check that the logrotate script is indeed in the /etc/cron.daily|hourly|
> weekly directories...
> 3- the best one: run it manually by doing:
> logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.conf
>
> ..and see for yourself why isn't running.
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
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