Hello, I've got a Centos 5.4 box that is not rotating it's mail logs. I just found out about this, the file is considerably large. I've included my log rotation configs if anyone has any suggestions i'm open to them. Thanks. Dave. /etc/rsyslog.conf: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! # don't log clamd messages *.info;ftp.none;clamd.none;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* /var/log/maillog # Log cron stuff cron.* /var/log/cron # Everybody gets emergency messages *.emerg * # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file. #uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler # Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.log # log ftp stuff separately ftp.* /var/log/ftp.log /etc/logrotate.d/syslog: /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } logrotate.conf: # see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed compress # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly minsize 1M create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:> I've got a Centos 5.4 box that is not rotating it's mail logs. I just > found out about this, the file is considerably large. I've included my > log rotation configs if anyone has any suggestions i'm open to them.I had a system, set up very minimally by someone else, exhibit this behavior. In my case, turned out that the "crontabs" package was not installed, which has the general cron config. Check that? --wes