Re: Multilog failing to rotate logfiles

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:40:28PM -0900, Robert Fisher wrote:
> I am having a small problem with Multilog.  It appears that it is not 
> auto rotating the logs. My commands for the log files are
> 
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 /var/log/qmail/smtpd
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 /var/log/qmail
> /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 /var/log/qmail/pop3d
> 
> So in this case, it should rotate the logs at 10MB approx.  However, all 
> three logs are going well beyond that and filling up my disk space.

It's not clear what your problem is.  Do you have up to 10 log files in
each of the above directories, each of which is no larger than 10000000
bytes?

If yes, that's exactly what you told multilog to keep (you may have
missed the "n" option in the multilog man page).

If not, what's the output of:

  ls -l /var/log/qmail{,/smtpd,/pop3d}

and:

  cat -vE <your_multilog_run_scripts>

?  And did you change the above multilog run scripts but forget to
restart the corresponding log services?

- Adrian