On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, Marco Gaiarin via Exim-users wrote:
> Mandi! Ian Z via Exim-users
> In chel di` si favelave...
>
>> More information needed:
>> - what style of logfile naming is in use (just sequence numbers, or
>> dates, or something else?)
>
> ?! Sorry but i've not understood the question...
>
>
>> - please share the logrotate.d entry for exim
>
> Standard debian one:
>
> root@mail:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/rejectlog {
> daily
> missingok
> rotate 10
> compress
> delaycompress
> notifempty
> nocreate
> }
Ubuntu has a separate file /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-paniclog
which says:
/var/log/exim4/paniclog {
size 10M
missingok
rotate 10
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
nocreate
}
I have completely rewritten mine to:
/var/log/exim4/paniclog {
# keep for a long time, but don't let them be world-readable!
daily
dateext
rotate 600
create 0640 Debian-exim Debian-exim
sharedscripts
}
The "sharedscripts" entry may be significant -
I have also added it to my /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base
However there are no exim postrotate scripts, so it may
not matter.
I don't see the point in compressing a file which should be empty
(it gets bigger *and* harder to read).
I rotate daily so that new panics can be told instantly from old ones
(and maybe to be consistent with the other exim logs).
>> To exclude any systemd issues, you can:
>
> OK, but i've not 'logrotate' issue; logrotate seems to do the correct
> things; simply seldom i catch errors as in my original post, and i receive
> two report.
We are suspicious that this *is* a *subtle* logrotate issue.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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