Re: script file for cropping mail log
From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 04/14/04
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:10:14 +0200
Aki Masume wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I'm not much of a programmer and was just wondering if I could get some help
> doing this. What I would like to do is write a script file that I can call
> from cron to run nightly. I want to save the current mail log under a
> different name (perhaps like that day's date) and then create a new mail
> log. I thought I could just move the file out of the directory and Postfix
> will automatically recreate the file, but it doesn't. Postfix (or SuSE, not
> sure which one is doing it) just keeps updating the mail log file, even if I
> moved its location. Any ideas? I don't want the mail log file to get too
> large. Thanx.
Do you realy need a different log every day? As others already pointed
out, logrotate does this nicely. Why would you want to do it?
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