Re: [fetchmail-users] Rotating the log file

[James M. <ji...@so...>]

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Matthias Andree wrote:
>>   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?
>>
> 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.
> 
  Okay. Thanks!

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