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From: Chris <cpo...@em...> - 2016-09-25 00:28:13
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Is there a way that this can be done somehow? Thanks Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 19:25:03 up 21:19, 1 user, load average: 0.68, 0.34, 0.22 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016 |
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From: Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...> - 2016-09-25 00:53:32
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On 2016-09-25 02:28, Chris wrote: > Is there a way that this can be done somehow? I have fetchmail log into syslog, and then handle rotation in the usual manner. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) |
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From: Chris <cpo...@em...> - 2016-09-25 01:20:04
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On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 02:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2016-09-25 02:28, Chris wrote: > > > > Is there a way that this can be done somehow? > I have fetchmail log into syslog, and then handle rotation in the > usual > manner. > That makes sense, I hadn't thought of doing it that way, thanks. -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 20:14:01 up 22:08, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.25, 0.27 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016 |
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From: Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...> - 2016-09-25 01:24:58
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On 2016-09-25 03:19, Chris wrote: > On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 02:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2016-09-25 02:28, Chris wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way that this can be done somehow? >> I have fetchmail log into syslog, and then handle rotation in the >> usual manner. >> > That makes sense, I hadn't thought of doing it that way, thanks. Welcome. It goes into the same file as "mail entries", so that I can track a single mail coming from fetchmail, into postfix, then procmail, dovecot... it is not trivial but can be done. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) |
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From: Chris <cpo...@em...> - 2016-09-25 02:08:50
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On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 03:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2016-09-25 03:19, Chris wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 02:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > > > On 2016-09-25 02:28, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way that this can be done somehow? > > > I have fetchmail log into syslog, and then handle rotation in the > > > usual manner. > > > > > That makes sense, I hadn't thought of doing it that way, thanks. > Welcome. > > It goes into the same file as "mail entries", so that I can track a > single mail coming from fetchmail, into postfix, then procmail, > dovecot... it is not trivial but can be done. > I can just have procmail log to syslog also. I was attempting to use webmins logrotate setup yesterday but couldn't get it to where it would kill the fetchmail process, rotate and recreate the log then restart fetchmail. -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 21:03:01 up 22:57, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.32, 0.32 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016 |
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From: Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...> - 2016-09-25 09:32:49
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On 2016-09-25 04:08, Chris wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 03:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I can just have procmail log to syslog also. I was attempting to use
> webmins logrotate setup yesterday but couldn't get it to where it would
> kill the fetchmail process, rotate and recreate the log then restart
> fetchmail.
If you use "logrotate" it is quite simple, actually. It is a directory
"/etc/logrotate.d" with config files. Take the one for apache, it
contains entries for each file it handles:
var/log/apache2/access_log {
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
size=+4096k
notifempty
missingok
create 644 root root
postrotate
/usr/bin/systemctl reload apache2.service
endscript
}
The "postrotate" is what it does with the process. I see one file for
fetchmail, too:
var/log/fetchmail {
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
size=+1024k
notifempty
missingok
copytruncate
create 0600 fetchmail root
}
It doesn't kill the service. Instead it copies and trunctates the log.
This is in openSUSE, other distros may vary.
--
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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From: Chris <cpo...@em...> - 2016-09-25 12:46:52
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On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 11:32 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2016-09-25 04:08, Chris wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 03:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> >
> > I can just have procmail log to syslog also. I was attempting to
> > use
> > webmins logrotate setup yesterday but couldn't get it to where it
> > would
> > kill the fetchmail process, rotate and recreate the log then
> > restart
> > fetchmail.
> If you use "logrotate" it is quite simple, actually. It is a
> directory
> "/etc/logrotate.d" with config files. Take the one for apache, it
> contains entries for each file it handles:
>
> var/log/apache2/access_log {
> compress
> dateext
> maxage 365
> rotate 99
> size=+4096k
> notifempty
> missingok
> create 644 root root
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/systemctl reload apache2.service
> endscript
> }
>
> The "postrotate" is what it does with the process. I see one file for
> fetchmail, too:
>
> var/log/fetchmail {
> compress
> dateext
> maxage 365
> rotate 99
> size=+1024k
> notifempty
> missingok
> copytruncate
> create 0600 fetchmail root
> }
>
> It doesn't kill the service. Instead it copies and trunctates the
> log.
>
> This is in openSUSE, other distros may vary.
>
Thanks for that Carlos, I'll put that in my /etc/logrotate.d folder and
see if it works.
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Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft)
07:45:05 up 1 day, 9:39, 1 user, load average: 1.75, 1.61, 1.03
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016
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From: Chris <cpo...@em...> - 2016-12-27 21:39:04
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On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 19:28 -0500, Chris wrote:
> Is there a way that this can be done somehow?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
I started this thread in Sept and I'm just now digging into this again.
Some things I've done and also some I've found I need but not sure how
to accomplish. I've got a 'fetchmail.logrotate' file in
/etc/logrotate.d:
/home/chris/fetchmaillog {
prerotate
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit
endscript
daily
rotate 8
compress
dateext
missingok
notifempty
create 0664 chris chris
postrotate
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v --nokeep --nosyslog --logfile
/home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail
endscript
}
Running sudo logrotate -vd /etc/logrotate.conf shows me it reads the
fetchmail.logrotate file
rotating pattern: /home/chris/fetchmaillog after 1 days (8 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
switching euid to 0 and egid to 104
considering log /home/chris/fetchmaillog
log does not need rotating
switching euid to 0 and egid to 0
When the daily cron job for logrotate was run this morning I got this
output mailed to me:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: fetchmail.logrotate:43 unknown option 'datext' -- ignoring line
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: no other fetchmail is running
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
error: error running shared postrotate script for
'/home/chris/fetchmaillog '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
I've corrected the misspelling of 'dateext' however as can be seen it
tried to restart fetchmail as root. I've discovered that what I need is
a different state file for user chris
-s, --state <statefile>
Tells logrotate to use an alternate state file. This is useful if
logrotate is being run as a different user for various sets of log
files. The default state file is /var/lib/logrotate.status.
I imagine I need something like this which is in the /etc/cron.daily
folder
#!/bin/sh
# Clean non existent log file entries from status file
cd /var/lib/logrotate
test -e status || touch status
head -1 status > status.clean
sed 's/"//g' status | while read logfile date
do
[ -e "$logfile" ] && echo "\"$logfile\" $date"
done >> status.clean
mv status.clean status
test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
So, can I modify the above and call it something else while changing
the first line to read something like
cd /home/chris/.logrotate
and the last line to be something like
sudo -u chris /usr/sbin/logrotate /home/chris/.logrotate.conf
and put this
/home/chris/fetchmaillog {
prerotate
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit
endscript
daily
rotate 8
compress
dateext
missingok
notifempty
create 0664 chris chris
postrotate
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v --nokeep --nosyslog --logfile
/home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail
endscript
}
into the /home/chris/.logrotate.conf file?
Apologies for the lengthy post but I think I've covered everything I've
done so far and the results or lack there of.
Chris
--
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft)
14:57:23 up 7 days, 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.21, 0.14
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-57-generic #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 9
23:50:32 UTC 2016 |
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