Re: [fetchmail-users] Rotating the log file

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

James Moe <ji...@so...> writes:

> Hello,
>   There seems to be no built in mechanism for limiting the size of the log
> file. It grows without bound. I have tried renaming it but fetchmail does
> not create a new one and all further logging is lost.
>   Logrotate looks like a useful tool for managing the log files. Does
> fetchmail act the same way, stop logging, when logrotate changes the file
> names?
>   Or must I stop fetchmail, rename the log file, restart fetchmail?
>
> fetchmail v6.3.4

For the time being, you will need to restart fetchmail
unfortunately.

I've put on my TODO list the suggestion to handle closing/reopening log
files for the next fetchmail version.

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Matthias Andree