Re: [fetchmail-users] Rotating the log file

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Am 2006-07-10 20:46:36, schrieb Stephen Allen:
> 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:

Do not run it ad daemont but from your crontab with

   */3 * * * * <user> fetchmail --logfile /path/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log

which will write dayly named logs

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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