[lug] Logrotate on mailman files?

Scott Herod herod at dimensional.com
Thu Oct 24 09:09:32 MDT 2002


Hello again,

A bit of suggestion that the logrotate problem was addressed in mailman 
2.0.13-1, from the ChangeLog:

* Fri Aug 02 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai  2.0.13-1
 - specify log files individually, per faq wizard


Scott

Scott Herod wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry to come back to this.  Can someone verify that mailman-2.0.11-1 
> was part of the RH 7.3 release and that the file 
> /etc/logrotate.d/mailman contains:
>
> /var/log/mailman/* {
>    missingok
> }
>
>
> According to my reading of the logrotate man page, that will 
> eventually kill a machine because the number of log files will 
> exponentially explode.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
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