Mandi! Ian Z via Exim-users
In chel di` si favelave...
> More information needed:
> - what style of logfile naming is in use (just sequence numbers, or
> dates, or something else?)
?! Sorry but i've not understood the question...
> - please share the logrotate.d entry for exim
Standard debian one:
root@mail:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base
/var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/rejectlog {
daily
missingok
rotate 10
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
nocreate
}
> To exclude any systemd issues, you can:
OK, but i've not 'logrotate' issue; logrotate seems to do the correct
things; simply seldom i catch errors as in my original post, and i receive
two report.
Also, Chris Siebenmann wrote me in private:
> The short version is (probably) yes: logrotate was moved from cron.daily
> to being a separate systemd timer unit, 'logrotate.timer' and
> 'logrotate.service', and the timer unit was set to run at midnight. You
> can see this with 'systemctl list-timers'.
root@mail:~# systemctl list-timers
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED
UNIT ACTIVATES
Thu 2024-09-26 11:39:00 CEST 4min 48s left Thu 2024-09-26 11:09:08 CEST 25min
ago phpsessionclean.timer phpsessionclean.service
Thu 2024-09-26 11:40:00 CEST 5min left Thu 2024-09-26 11:30:08 CEST 4min 3s
ago sysstat-collect.timer sysstat-collect.service
Thu 2024-09-26 12:58:40 CEST 1h 24min left Thu 2024-09-26 11:13:47 CEST 20min
ago certbot.timer certbot.service
Thu 2024-09-26 15:40:15 CEST 4h 6min left Wed 2024-09-25 18:21:07 CEST 17h ago
apt-daily.timer apt-daily.service
Thu 2024-09-26 15:55:03 CEST 4h 20min left Wed 2024-09-25 15:55:03 CEST 19h ago
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
Fri 2024-09-27 00:00:00 CEST 12h left Thu 2024-09-26 00:00:08 CEST 11h ago
exim4-base.timer exim4-base.service
Fri 2024-09-27 00:00:00 CEST 12h left Thu 2024-09-26 00:00:08 CEST 11h ago
logrotate.timer logrotate.service
Fri 2024-09-27 00:00:00 CEST 12h left Thu 2024-09-26 00:00:08 CEST 11h ago
man-db.timer man-db.service
Fri 2024-09-27 00:07:00 CEST 12h left Thu 2024-09-26 00:07:01 CEST 11h ago
sysstat-summary.timer sysstat-summary.service
Fri 2024-09-27 06:48:43 CEST 19h left Thu 2024-09-26 06:56:08 CEST 4h
38min ago apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily-upgrade.service
Sun 2024-09-29 03:10:31 CEST 2 days left Sun 2024-09-22 03:11:15 CEST 4 days
ago e2scrub_all.timer e2scrub_all.service
11 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.
root@mail:~# systemctl status exim4-base.timer
● exim4-base.timer - Daily exim4-base housekeeping
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/exim4-base.timer; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: active (waiting) since Wed 2024-08-21 15:26:20 CEST; 1 months 5
days ago
Trigger: Fri 2024-09-27 00:00:00 CEST; 12h left
Triggers: ● exim4-base.service
Docs: man:exim4(8)
Warning: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be
incomplete.
root@mail:~# cat /lib/systemd/system/exim4-base.timer
[Unit]
Description=Daily exim4-base housekeeping
Documentation=man:exim4(8)
Before=logrotate.timer
[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
AccuracySec=12h
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
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