Re: Multilog failing to rotate logfiles
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Robert Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles, > > Thanks for replying, You're welcome. By the way, would you mind not top-posting, and trimming old material? Your current posting style makes your replies very difficult to read. > but I think I might have this licked. I was running a logwatch script that > was collating my dates but then was piping the log back into itself in a > loop I think. I'm not sure what you mean by this. You wouldn't be able to get a second process feeding data to the same multilog process. > I removed the code, and will see what happens tonight and will respond in > the morning. But still doesn't explain why the logs did not rotate out > cause they were well above 10MB. No, it doesn't. I don't know why this didn't seem to work -- I've never seen multilog fail to rotate logs like this. I'm sure it's not multilog; it's got to be something to do with your setup, but I don't know what. > Will the logs not rotate if the limit is not within 2KB of the max? Not quite. multilog will rotate the current log file out at the first of either (a) the first newline character after the log reaches (N - 2000) bytes, or (b) the log reaches N bytes. > qmaill 24982 0.0 0.0 1360 268 ? S 21:32 0:00 > /usr/local/bin/multilog t s10000000 /var/log/qmail And this shows your "s" argument should have been in effect. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------