Re: [webmin-l] Rotating fetchmail log

Greetings, Chris!

> 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.


pre/postrotate ... endscript blocks DEFINE a script, that will be run upon
appropriate event. Not "use".


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 06:27:42

Sorry for my terrible english...
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