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

[Chris <cpo...@em...>]

On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 11:32 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks for that Carlos, I'll put that in my /etc/logrotate.d folder and
see if it works.

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