Re: [webmin-l] Rotating fetchmail log

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 06:28 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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".
> 
Thanks Andrey, I understand now. Hoping that it will work the way I
have it setup at least running logrotate -d doesn't give me any errors.
Logrotate runs each morning at 7:30. Checking I see

1629780 Dec 27 07:42 fetchmaillog-20161227

however a couple of issues. 1)the log wasn't compressed and 2)fetchmail
wasn't stopped although the new fetchmaillog was created it wasn't
being written to. The way the fetchmail.logrotate file now reads in
/etc/logrotate.d is

/home/chris/fetchmaillog {
	daily
	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
	endscript
}

The new fetchmaillog file was created however it was staying at 0 in
size. Running pgrep fetchmail showed it was running so is it possible
that I need a prerotate/endscript that will be written as:

prerotate
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit
endscript

and only have the postrotate/endscript command to restart fetchmail
after the log is rotated?

Chris

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