CentOS - Sep 2007 - logrotate /var/log/maillog

Hi,

I want to create a new log /var/log/maillog for postfix each day and so 
i created a new logrotate config for the log and removed it from 
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog.

~]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/maillog
/var/log/maillog {
      daily
      rotate 31
      start 1
      compress
      create 0600  root
      postrotate
      /etc/init.d/postfix reload > /dev/null
      endscript
      }

After /var/log/maillog has rotated, postfix doesn't log anything to the 
new log file till i restart syslog. It doesn't matter if i reload or 
restart postfix.
Is this a normal behaviour with this log file and if yes why?



Thomas

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:06:06PM +0200, Thomas Antony
wrote:
> After /var/log/maillog has rotated, postfix doesn't log anything to the
> new log file till i restart syslog. It doesn't matter if i reload or 
> restart postfix.
You don't need to restart syslog, merely send it a SIGHUP
> Is this a normal behaviour with this log file and if yes why?
Yes.

Postfix doesn't write to the file directly, it sends its messages to
syslog which writes according to the mail.* entries in syslog.conf

Check the existing syslog logrotate entry.

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rgds
Stephen