how to limit maillog size

[Dave Peters]

All,

How can I limit maillog size so it can generate new
one when it reaches the limited?

Thanks.

--Dave


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[Dinesh Shah]

Dave,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Dave Peters <> wrote:

> All,
>
> How can I limit maillog size so it can generate new
> one when it reaches the limited?


Check out logrotate.

Thanks.
>
> --Dave
>

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[Gregory Boyce-3]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Dave Peters wrote:

> All,
>
> How can I limit maillog size so it can generate new
> one when it reaches the limited?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Dave

In logrotate.d, you can specify the file size to rotate at with
something like: size +4096k

Of course, the configuration is only read when logrotate runs.  One some
systems that may be daily, so if you want it to rotate faster you'd need
to move the logrotate cron from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.hourly.



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[Jerry Feldman-2]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
Dave Peters <gameslover987@...> wrote:

> All,
>
> How can I limit maillog size so it can generate new
> one when it reaches the limited?

At least on RHEL 4, the maillog rotation is coordinated with syslog.
Look in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog.

SuSE systems use the name mail rather than maillog, but it is still
pat of the syslog rotation.




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[Dave Peters]

Thanks all. It works.

--Dave
--- Jerry Feldman <gaf@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Dave Peters <gameslover987@...> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > How can I limit maillog size so it can generate
> new
> > one when it reaches the limited?
>
> At least on RHEL 4, the maillog rotation is
> coordinated with syslog.
> Look in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog.
>
> SuSE systems use the name mail rather than maillog,
> but it is still
> pat of the syslog rotation.
>
>
>
>
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[Christopher L. Butler]

Not sure how much anyone has heard about this but I thought it was
important to pass along. Cheers!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-May/0007
05.html

Thank you,

Chris

 

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[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:53 -0400, Christopher L. Butler wrote:
> Not sure how much anyone has heard about this but I thought it was
> important to pass along. Cheers!
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-May/0007
> 05.html

See also:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html

http://www.links.org/?p=327

Pretty brutal...



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[Jerry Feldman-2]

Just received an update from Ubuntu that includes the libssl security
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