Re: [Fetchmail-users] using logrotate to rotate the fetchmail log

[Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...>]

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.

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)