Re: [webmin-l] Rotating fetchmail log

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 03:09 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Chris!
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 14:18 -0800, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > > 
> > > Try logging in as root via SSH and running :
> > > 
> > > logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
> > > 
> > Thank you for that. I think I'm getting closer. I now have a
> > fetchmail.logrotate file in /etc/logrotate.d which reads
> 
> > 
> > /home/chris/fetchmaillog {
> >     weekly
> >     rotate 8
> >     compress
> >     datext
> >     missingok
> >     notifempty
> >     create 0664 chris chris
> >     sharedscripts
> >     postrotate
> >         /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit; fetchmail -v --nokeep --
> > nosyslog --logfile /home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail
> >         fi;
> >     endscript
> > }
> 
> ...
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure though if the postrotate command will work correctly
> > since
> > the commands below it are not a true script.
> 
> What makes you saying that?
> 
I'm just assuming that since from what I understand in reading the
logrotate man page that prerotate and postrotate use a script.

Chris

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