Re: [fetchmail-users] Rotating the log file

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

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On 7/10/06, Stephen Allen <fet...@ro...> wrote:
> Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > Have you considered using syslog instead of logfile?
>
> That would be a good idea if you could control more of what gets logged
> there.  At the moment, my fetchmail daemon runs every 180 seconds and
> checks email from half-a-dozen POP3 servers.  Most of it's log is filled
> with:
>
> fetchmail: sleeping at Mon 10 Jul 2006 20:25:26 BST
> fetchmail: awakened at Mon 10 Jul 2006 20:28:26 BST
<---SNIP--->
> However, I *do* want to see messages like:
>
> fetchmail: 1 message for us...@do... at POP3-1 (2353 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message us...@do...@pop.isp.com:1 of 1 (2353
> octets) fetchmail:  flushed
>
> As far as I know at the moment, it's all or nothing.

For what you're after, yes.  I'll admit that I only see log entries
from fetchmail when things go wrong.  Everything else would only be
duplicating what my MTA logs anyway...

However, if you run syslog-ng you could easily weed out the messages
you don't want.  I've done that on a number of systems, using the
pattern matching to avoid logging pointless stuff.  Probably easier
than patching fetchmail, and arguing over what messages should go at
what verbosity level :)

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