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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-12-22 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2004-12-22 Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org> wrote:
> > Andreas Metzler wrote:
> [...]
> >>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?

> > logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf 2>&1 | grep -2 exim4

> > gives

> > reading config file cupsys
> > reading config info for /var/log/cups/*log
> > reading config file exim4-base
> > reading config info for /var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/rejectlog 
> > /var/log/exim4/paniclog
> > reading config file mysql-server
> > reading config info for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log 
> > /var/log/mysql.err /var/log/mysql/mysql.err
> [...]

> Hello,
> That looks bad, the part where logrotate actually considers the
> logfiles is missing, this should include stuff look like this:

> rotating pattern: /var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/rejectlog /var/log/exim4/paniclog  after 1 days (10 rotations)
> empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
> considering log /var/log/exim4/mainlog
>   log does not need rotating

> Could you send the complete un-grepped output of "logrotate -d
> /etc/logrotate.conf"?

Hello,
Couild you please provide the information I asked for? Can you still
reproduce the problem or did go away?

(Without more information I'll close the bug in a month.)
        cu andreas
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