Re: Multilog failing to rotate logfiles

Adrian

I guess I should add, if I stop the mail server and restart it.  The log 
files will rotate if they are greater than 10MB.

Robert

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
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>>/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
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>>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?
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>If yes, that's exactly what you told multilog to keep (you may have
>missed the "n" option in the multilog man page).
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>If not, what's the output of:
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>  ls -l /var/log/qmail{,/smtpd,/pop3d}
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>and:
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>  cat -vE <your_multilog_run_scripts>
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>?  And did you change the above multilog run scripts but forget to
>restart the corresponding log services?
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>- Adrian
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