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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-08-14 14:07:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-14 15:03:22 +0100 |
| commit | e98fb0be4418aaa1335b8a9e6544b3546f239ca0 (patch) | |
| tree | 06f9ec9ff4b2c3fd6896b35e4528d9de9e8982db /docs/installing | |
| parent | 6c86b655b4909f09b38044645bd7cdded9405dd7 (diff) | |
Remove duplicated logrotate config
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/installing')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/email.md | 25 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index 383629bad..e1806d66f 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -256,28 +256,14 @@ format. Update MTA_LOG_PATH: '/var/log/mail/mail.log-*' MTA_LOG_TYPE: "postfix" +Configure postfix to log to its own directory: + ##### Debian In `/etc/rsyslog.conf`, set: mail.* -/var/log/mail/mail.log -And also edit `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog`: - - /var/log/mail/mail.log - { - rotate 30 - daily - dateext - missingok - notifempty - compress - delaycompress - sharedscripts - postrotate - reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true - endscript - } ##### Ubuntu @@ -285,8 +271,11 @@ In `/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf` set: mail.* -/var/log/mail/mail.log -And also edit `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog`: +##### Configure logrotate + +Configure logrotate to rotate the log files in the required format: + cat >> /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog <<EOF /var/log/mail/mail.log { rotate 30 @@ -301,7 +290,7 @@ And also edit `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog`: reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true endscript } - + EOF #### Making the changes live |