Re: [webmin-l] Rotating fetchmail log

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 09:49 -0800, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 27/Dec/2016 06:42 Chris <[email protected]> wrote ..
> > 
> > On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 08:08 -0600, Chris wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > After writing the above I saw this in my 'cronjobs' mail folder
> > 
> > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> > error: fetchmail.logrotate:43 unknown option 'datext' -- ignoring
> > line
> > fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
> > fetchmail: no other fetchmail is running
> > fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
> > fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
> > error: error running shared postrotate script for
> > '/home/chris/fetchmaillog '
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
> > 
> > I corrected my misspelling of 'dateext'. I'm wondering if I use the
> > 'nosharedscripts' option will that allow fetchmail to be restarted
> > as
> > user 'chris' instead of root or attempt to start as root?
> 
> If you want fetchmail to be run as a different user, I'd 
> recommend using a command like :
> 
> su chris -c "/usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit; fetchmail -v --nokeep
> --nosyslog --logfile /home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail"
> 
Thanks Jamie, I'll try it only using sudo -u chris to see how it works
out.

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Chris
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