Log rotation and combining...

[Tom Hendrikx]

Hi,


Your crontab should normally mail you error output. But you can also run
the logrotate command manually, in verbose mode.


Kind regards,
	Tom

On 17-11-17 03:35, SH Development wrote:
> That doesn’t seem to work either.  Where do I find logs for log rotation to see the reason it failed?
> 
> Ethon
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2017, at 7:53 PM, Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org <mailto:bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org>> wrote:
>>
>> I believe you need a 'create' statement to set the permissions. Here
>> is an example for mariadb:
>> /var/log/mariadb/general.log
>> /var/log/mariadb/slow_query.log
>> /var/log/mariadb/error.log
>> /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log {
>>         create 640 mysql mysql
>>         daily
>>         minsize 30M
>>         notifempty
>>         rotate 3
>>         missingok
>>         compress
>>         sharedscripts
>>         postrotate
>> #       # just if mysqld is really running
>>                 if test -x /usr/bin/mysqladmin && \
>>                         /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping &>/dev/null
>>                 then
>>                         /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs
>>                 fi
>>         endscript
>> }
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On 11/16/2017 4:27 AM, SH Development wrote:
>>> I have recently noticed that my dovecot-deliver.log is huge and wanted to start rotating it.  So a couple of questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Can the dovecot-deliver.log be combined with the maillog, that gets rotated weekly?  If it can be done, is it advisable?
>>> Since the inception of this particular server, the log file has been located in the /home/vmail directory.  Is there a reason it shouldn’t be located in the /var/log directory with the maillog?
>>>
>>> 2. Separate from above, if I create a new logrotate script example as follows:
>>>
>>> # dovecot SIGUSR1: Re-opens the log files.
>>> /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log {
>>>   missingok
>>>   notifempty
>>>   delaycompress
>>>   sharedscripts
>>>   postrotate
>>>     /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
>>>   endscript
>>> }
>>>
>>> I get the following error only when cron tries to run it:
>>>
>>> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>>> error: stat of /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log failed: Permission denied
>>>
>>>
>>> Owner on the log are vmail:vmail.  If I manually force logrotate on this particular log, it works fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ethon