Bug#285858: No log rotation after exim3->exim4 upgrade

Andreas Metzler Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, 285858@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:27:09 +0100


reassign 285858 exim4-base
thanks
On 2004-12-16 Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-8
> Severity: normal

> If I do ls -lrt of /var/log/exim4, I see this:
> gpk:exim$ sudo ls -lrt /var/log/exim4
[...]
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm  104559 Oct 20 06:32 mainlog.1
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm     565 Oct 20 06:33 rejectlog.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   17904 Oct 20 06:33 mainlog.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm       0 Dec  8 08:55 paniclog
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm   97811 Dec 15 22:57 rejectlog
> -rw-r-----  1 Debian-exim adm 5285498 Dec 16 00:17 mainlog

> Note that it's been two months since mainlog was rotated;
> it's starting to get pretty big.
[...]

Logrotation works fine for me. Did you modify
/etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base? What does
logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf 2>&1 | grep -2 exim4
say?
           thanks, cu andreas
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