Re: Multilog failing to rotate logfiles

Adrian Ho wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:40:28PM -0900, Robert Fisher wrote:
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>>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.
>>    
>>
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>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}
>  
>
[root@ns qmail]# ls -lh
???? 738M
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       11M 11?? 20 23:58 
@40000000419f5bfa2f617a7c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       23M 11?? 21 15:50 
@4000000041a03b4312b5351c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       86K 11?? 21 23:58 
@4000000041a0ad7a2bc6f66c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       46M 11?? 22 11:33 
@4000000041a14ff00cded29c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      196K 11?? 22 23:32 
@4000000041a1fefa1c8640f4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       93M 11?? 23 23:47 
@4000000041a3507a21a11ba4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      187M 11?? 24 10:58 
@4000000041a3eb1f16982824.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      260K 11?? 24 23:57 
@4000000041a4a1fa2ea8d4f4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      374M 11?? 25 11:03 
@4000000041a53db22956e89c.s
-rw-r--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      209K 11?? 25 21:11 current
-rwxr-x---    1 qmaill   root            0 10??  6 13:47 lock
drwxr-x---    2 qmaill   root         4.0K 11?? 25 11:04 pop3d
drwxr-x---    2 qmaill   root         4.0K 11?? 25 11:04 smtpd
-rw-r--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles         0 11?? 16 10:26 state
[root@ns qmail]# ls -lh pop3d/
???? 3.9G
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       61M 11?? 20 23:59 
@40000000419f5bfa39eb04cc.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      124M 11?? 21 15:52 
@4000000041a03b4312b1648c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      474K 11?? 21 23:59 
@4000000041a0ad7a2bc321f4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      249M 11?? 22 11:32 
@4000000041a14ff00ce231e4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      1.4M 11?? 22 23:59 
@4000000041a1fefa1b0f6034.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      503M 11?? 23 23:59 
@4000000041a3507a1d326f14.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles     1007M 11?? 24 10:59 
@4000000041a3eb1f169b21dc.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      1.7M 11?? 24 23:59 
@4000000041a4a1fa2ea56ddc.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      2.0G 11?? 25 11:04 
@4000000041a53db22b10874c.s
-rw-r--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      1.7M 11?? 25 21:21 current
-rwxr-x---    1 qmaill   root            0 10??  6 13:47 lock
-rwxr-x---    1 qmaill   root            0 10??  6 13:47 state
[root@ns qmail]# ls -lh smtpd/
???? 120M
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      374K 11?? 18 23:59 
@40000000419cb8fa3243ce34.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      900K 11?? 19 23:36 
@40000000419e0a7a03624794.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      1.8M 11?? 20 23:56 
@40000000419f5bfa2f64ddac.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      3.7M 11?? 21 23:58 
@4000000041a0ad7a2d6d0934.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles      7.4M 11?? 22 23:30 
@4000000041a1fefa1c8283ec.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       15M 11?? 23 23:47 
@4000000041a3507a1d368dc4.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       30M 11?? 24 10:58 
@4000000041a3eb1f18dc7e8c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       90K 11?? 24 23:57 
@4000000041a4a1fa2ffe200c.s
-rwxr--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       60M 11?? 25 11:03 
@4000000041a53db22b137164.s
-rw-r--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles       78K 11?? 25 21:21 current
-rwxr-x---    1 qmaill   root            0 10??  6 13:47 lock
-rw-r--r--    1 qmaill   nofiles         0 11?? 17 09:07 state


As you can see it is not very consistent.

>and:
>
>  cat -vE <your_multilog_run_scripts>
>  
>
[root@ns supervise]# cat -vE qmail-smtpd/log/run
#!/bin/sh$
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 \$
/var/log/qmail/smtpd$
[root@ns supervise]# cat -vE qmail-pop3d/log/run
#!/bin/sh$
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 \$
/var/log/qmail/pop3d$
[root@ns supervise]# cat -vE qmail-send/log/run
#!/bin/sh$
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 
/var/log/qmail $


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

How do you restart the log services, I am sure I did this but it might 
explain why it is acting kind of wierd, but even if I didn't restart the 
log services it should have defaulted to 99k.  It defaults to n of 10 
just as the daemontools website says.

>- Adrian
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Also, is there a way to log less content?

Thanks in advance.

Robert Fisher
Inphase Co., Ltd.