On Monday 24 February 2003 8:47, someone, possibly Thomas Kinghorn, typed:
> Does anyone have an example of a cron for rotating the mainlog and reject
> log for exim.
Tom, this can be done easily with the exicyclog script, which should be
installed on your system. On FreeBSD, this is at /usr/local/sbin/exicyclog,
the location may vary for your system.
On my system, running exicyclog from cron would be trivial:
00 00 * * * /usr/local/sbin/exicyclog
To find the location of exicyclog for your system, you may use:
which exicyclog
If it has been installed in a directory in your system's path, if Exim has
been installed in a custom directory, exicyclog will be in the bin/
subdirectory you selected.
exicyclog has one shortcoming though, it merely moves files to have new
names like .01. If you want a real rollover, where old logs are compressed,
I would sugest you use newsyslog(8) instead. This is only available on BSD
though, but to do this with newsyslog(8) you would need these in
/etc/newsyslog.conf:
/var/log/exim/mainlog 640 10 100 * Z
/var/log/exim/paniclog 640 10 100 * Z
/var/log/exim/rejectlog 640 10 100 * Z
Customize these as you wish, information is in newsyslog.conf(5).
If you are running a non-BSD system, you will have to do some quick shell
scripting to get (similar) behaviour. Here is a "poor man's" rollover
script I hacked out in double quick time, this could be done in a much
better way:
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/sbin/rolloverexim
cyclog=`which exicyclog`
gzip=`which gzip`
logdir="/var/log/exim"
## Replace with location of your exicyclog if not in path
rollover=`date +%s`
$cyclog
$gzip -S $rollover.gz *.01
This will produce compressed logs with names like
mainlog.01.<timestamp>.gz
This is not perfect, but it's fast to implement and will work.
Make your script executable:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rolloverexim
To add this to cron:
00 00 * * * /usr/local/sbin/rolloverexim
Will
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