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2 !!!exicyclog
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 SEE ALSO
7 AUTHOR
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9 !!NAME
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12 exicyclog - program to cycle exim logs
13 !!SYNOPSIS
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16 __exicyclog__
17 !!DESCRIPTION
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20 The exicyclog script cycles the main and reject log files.
21 Each time it is run the files get 'shuffled down' by one.
22 The mainlog file becomes mainlog.1, the previous mainlog.1
23 becomes mainlog.2 and so on, up to a limit which is set in
24 the script, and which defaults to 10. However, if no mainlog
25 file exists, the script does nothing. Reject logs are
26 handled similarly. Files that 'drop off' the end are
27 deleted. All files with numbers greater than 1 are
28 compressed, using a compression command which is configured
29 in the script.
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32 It is usual to run exicyclog daily from a crontab entry of
33 the form
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36 1 0 * * * /usr/sbin/exicyclog
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39 In this way, each day's log is (mostly) in a separate file.
40 There will be some overlap from processes that have the log
41 open at the time of renaming.
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44 The exicyclog script can be run as the Exim user when one is
45 defined, as the log files will be owned by that user in that
46 case. Otherwise it has to be run as root.
47 !!SEE ALSO
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50 There is extensive documentation available in
51 ''/usr/share/doc/exim'' and in the info system regarding
52 exim. Please be sure to have the __exim-doc__ package
53 installed.
54 !!AUTHOR
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57 This manual page was stitched together by Christoph Lameter
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