I try to rotate the mail logs of a big mail server more often than the default (weekly).
I added this to /etc/logrotate.d : # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/09/msg01310.html # sysklogd rotates file and "weekly" is hardwired in it. We add this file # to override it. /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.warn { daily rotate 52 compress create 640 root adm postrotate /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload endscript } It works but the default rotation scheme also, and it keeps rotating every week (syslogd-listfiles --weekly). See May 16th, a saturday : faramir:~ % ls -alt /var/log/mail.log* -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5098621 May 21 15:16 /var/log/mail.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2912181 May 21 06:24 /var/log/mail.log.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4232280 May 20 06:24 /var/log/mail.log.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3352124 May 19 06:25 /var/log/mail.log.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2974079 May 18 06:25 /var/log/mail.log.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 936179 May 17 06:25 /var/log/mail.log.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4916 May 16 06:36 /var/log/mail.log.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 386548 May 16 06:19 /var/log/mail.log.7.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 26177210 May 15 06:15 /var/log/mail.log.8.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 7547207 May 9 06:25 /var/log/mail.log.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 38059962 Apr 25 06:38 /var/log/mail.log.9.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 64760921 Apr 23 06:29 /var/log/mail.log.10.gz How can I suppress the default weekly rotation (which is not managed by logrotate)? Debian "sarge".