Rotate mailman logs

[neonix]

Hi;

I noticed that mailman logs were not being rotated -


root@pac 3 [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs]# ls -alt
total 40364
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 5763981 Dec 10 08:00 smtp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 141344 Dec 10 05:20 bounce
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 19075 Dec 10 05:20 vette
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 149123 Dec 9 17:50 qrunner
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 7850872 Dec 9 17:34 post
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 157865 Nov 22 12:42 subscribe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 27146157 Nov 20 09:58 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 634 Oct 19 09:31 mischief
drwxrwsr-x 22 mailman mailman 4096 Aug 25 12:17 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 5281 Aug 16 03:04 error
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 1 2005 ./




I have added the below lines to /etc/logrotate.conf to rotate them. Is this correct?


/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/smtp {
weekly
rotate 1
}

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/smtp-failure {
weekly
rotate 1
}

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/post {
weekly
rotate 1
}





OR is it better to add it within /etc/logrotate.d - I am not sure if this will work.

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/* {
missingok
compress
postrotate
endscript
}


Thanks for your help.

Thanks.

[lloyd_tennison]

For me, rotating all of the logs is a bad idea. If you ever need to trace a subscribe, it is a lot harder if the logs are gone.

[neonix]

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[forlinuxsupport]

hey

I have also just spotted those logs, mine are growing and have dates from APRIL in them.

I really cant see why rotating them should be a problem.
Maybe restart syslog or exim once you have rotated them ?

comments welcome.. pleez
cheers
Andy

[neonix]

What if you rotate a log and a ... big spider crawls from underneath.


My logs are rotating fine after I added these lines.

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/smtp {
weekly
rotate 1
}

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/smtp-failure {
weekly
rotate 1
}

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/post {
weekly
rotate 1
}