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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, September 23, 2002 6:32:07 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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/etc/aliases with both email addresses included - this is probably the nicest method.
It'll keep 12 rotations, and start gzip compressing old logfiles. mailfirst tells it to mail out the most recently rotated logfile (The default is the one about to be killed.)
-This is under DebianLinux. [YMMV]
under RedHat but it should be similar.
+This is under DebianLinux. YourMileageMayVary
under RedHat but it should be similar.
-Oh, and this is all assuming that you are using syslog(8
) to do your logging. If /var/log/logfilename is manually opened by whatever app you are using,
+Oh, and this is all assuming that you are using syslog(3
) to do your logging. If /var/log/logfilename is manually opened by whatever app you are using,
I dont know how logrotate will handle it, if at all. you may need to use the postrotate keyword in your logrotate file to trigger a -HUP to your app, or even restart it (icky).
