Hmmm, guess I mis-understood the newsyslog man page when I was reading it
last time. The way I read the owner:group field section of the man page was
that this was the owner:group assigned to the log that was just rotated out
and archived, not the new log that was initialized.
Also looks like I am going to have to pay more attention to the make
process. Usually I just do a make && make install && make clean on the port
I am installing and go back to playing counterstrike :)...
I will give it a shot! Many thanks to all that replied!
CK
-----Original Message-----
From: Odhiambo Washington [
mailto:wash@wananchi.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:23 AM
To: KP^2 - NOC
Cc: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Log Rotation
* KP^2 - NOC <noc@???> [20010901 06:15]: writing on the subject
'[Exim] Log Rotation'
| I guess my first question would be, do I need to rotate mainlog, paniclog,
| and rejectlog?
|
| And if so, I would really like to use newsyslog (this is on a FreeBSD 4.4
| system), which I tried but encountered a problem. When newsyslog creates
| the new log file, it is owned by root. If any of you have a work around
in
| place for this, I would love to hear it!! So, for now I just disabled
| newsyslog (at least where the exim logs are concerned), and chown'd the
log
| files so the exim user was the owner. Here are my newsyslog conf lines
for
| exim:
|
| /var/log/exim/mainlog 644 7 * @T00 Z
| /var/log/exim/paniclog 644 7 * @T00 Z
| /var/log/exim/rejectlog 644 7 * @T00 Z
|
| Thanks!
| CK
path/to/mainlog exim:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z /var/run/exim.pid
path/to/rejectlog exim:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z
path/to/paniclog exim:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z
From man newsyslog(8)
logfile_name
Name of the system log file to be archived.
owner:group
This optional field specifies the owner and group for the archive
file. The ":" is essential, even if the owner or group field is
left blank. The field may be numeric, or a name which is present
in /etc/passwd or /etc/group.
If you install Exim from the ports, then this gentleman called Sheldon
also made notes to that effect. The notes always appear if you keenly
watch your make install process ;-)
HTH
-Wash
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