Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving
Hi there, I hope I wasn't late to give my tips. Once I had this problem, and since I do not want to increase the logsize and logcount control file, the I create a script to backup qmail log file tar.gz-ed into another folder. you can see my script on http://www.mail-archive.com/qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com/msg14988.html then add it in your crontab. I execute it every day the reason I do not want to increase the logsize/logcount are a bigger file took long to open it and many files can took long when grepping added to wiki: http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Qmail_Log_Backup_Script On 13-Oct-10 0:14, PJF wrote: Martin, Actually - that will work just fine, thanks for the clarification. I've upped it to 100MB and will have it clean them out once a month. Thanks! -- PJF -Original Message- From: Martin Waschbüsch [mailto:mar...@waschbuesch.de] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:01 AM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving Hi there, the two values are just variables used to do this: The s command is used to specify the maximum size of each file before it gets renamed, and the n command to specify the maximum number of old log files which may exist before they are deleted. For example... multilog t n16 s1048576 ./main This allows each file to grow up to 1MB (1048576 bytes) and allows up to 16 files to exist before the oldest files are deleted. So, the way you currently have it, you could have 'logcount' files of a 'logsize' file size before overwriting old log data, Your main problem is going to be that neither of these values has anything whatsoever to do with timestamps - how far your log reaches into the past totally depends on the amount of data logged. You could try setting logcount to something *really* large, though and then periodically delete all log files older than the desired amount of time logged... like: find /path/to/files* -mtime +30 -delete Martin -- Martin Waschbüsch IT-Dienstleistungen Lautensackstr. 16 80687 München Telefon: +49 89 57005708 Fax: +49 89 57868023 Mobil: +49 170 2189794 mar...@waschbuesch.de http://martin.waschbuesch.de Am 12.10.2010 um 18:44 schrieb PJF: Hi, I need to keep at least 1 month of all mail logs, everything that logs via: /var/qmail/supervise/*/log I'm hoping I can use something like logrotate to rotate out logfiles, or have the same functionality of rotated out logs... Looking at the log/run files I see it reads some settings for multilog from: LOGSIZE=`cat /var/qmail/control/logsize` LOGCOUNT=`cat /var/qmail/control/logcount` Should I just up the logsize? I've got plenty of disk space. I'm going over the miltilog man page and it is not obvious to me what the most efficient way of accomplishing this is :) Any suggestions or a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- PJF - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- h...@qmailtoaster.com - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
[qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving
Hi, I need to keep at least 1 month of all mail logs, everything that logs via: /var/qmail/supervise/*/log I'm hoping I can use something like logrotate to rotate out logfiles, or have the same functionality of rotated out logs... Looking at the log/run files I see it reads some settings for multilog from: LOGSIZE=`cat /var/qmail/control/logsize` LOGCOUNT=`cat /var/qmail/control/logcount` Should I just up the logsize? I've got plenty of disk space. I'm going over the miltilog man page and it is not obvious to me what the most efficient way of accomplishing this is :) Any suggestions or a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- PJF - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving
Hi there, the two values are just variables used to do this: The s command is used to specify the maximum size of each file before it gets renamed, and the n command to specify the maximum number of old log files which may exist before they are deleted. For example... multilog t n16 s1048576 ./main This allows each file to grow up to 1MB (1048576 bytes) and allows up to 16 files to exist before the oldest files are deleted. So, the way you currently have it, you could have 'logcount' files of a 'logsize' file size before overwriting old log data, Your main problem is going to be that neither of these values has anything whatsoever to do with timestamps - how far your log reaches into the past totally depends on the amount of data logged. You could try setting logcount to something *really* large, though and then periodically delete all log files older than the desired amount of time logged... like: find /path/to/files* -mtime +30 -delete Martin -- Martin Waschbüsch IT-Dienstleistungen Lautensackstr. 16 80687 München Telefon: +49 89 57005708 Fax: +49 89 57868023 Mobil: +49 170 2189794 mar...@waschbuesch.de http://martin.waschbuesch.de Am 12.10.2010 um 18:44 schrieb PJF: Hi, I need to keep at least 1 month of all mail logs, everything that logs via: /var/qmail/supervise/*/log I'm hoping I can use something like logrotate to rotate out logfiles, or have the same functionality of rotated out logs... Looking at the log/run files I see it reads some settings for multilog from: LOGSIZE=`cat /var/qmail/control/logsize` LOGCOUNT=`cat /var/qmail/control/logcount` Should I just up the logsize? I've got plenty of disk space. I'm going over the miltilog man page and it is not obvious to me what the most efficient way of accomplishing this is :) Any suggestions or a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- PJF - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
RE: [qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving
Martin, Actually - that will work just fine, thanks for the clarification. I've upped it to 100MB and will have it clean them out once a month. Thanks! -- PJF -Original Message- From: Martin Waschbüsch [mailto:mar...@waschbuesch.de] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:01 AM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail logfile archiving Hi there, the two values are just variables used to do this: The s command is used to specify the maximum size of each file before it gets renamed, and the n command to specify the maximum number of old log files which may exist before they are deleted. For example... multilog t n16 s1048576 ./main This allows each file to grow up to 1MB (1048576 bytes) and allows up to 16 files to exist before the oldest files are deleted. So, the way you currently have it, you could have 'logcount' files of a 'logsize' file size before overwriting old log data, Your main problem is going to be that neither of these values has anything whatsoever to do with timestamps - how far your log reaches into the past totally depends on the amount of data logged. You could try setting logcount to something *really* large, though and then periodically delete all log files older than the desired amount of time logged... like: find /path/to/files* -mtime +30 -delete Martin -- Martin Waschbüsch IT-Dienstleistungen Lautensackstr. 16 80687 München Telefon: +49 89 57005708 Fax: +49 89 57868023 Mobil: +49 170 2189794 mar...@waschbuesch.de http://martin.waschbuesch.de Am 12.10.2010 um 18:44 schrieb PJF: Hi, I need to keep at least 1 month of all mail logs, everything that logs via: /var/qmail/supervise/*/log I'm hoping I can use something like logrotate to rotate out logfiles, or have the same functionality of rotated out logs... Looking at the log/run files I see it reads some settings for multilog from: LOGSIZE=`cat /var/qmail/control/logsize` LOGCOUNT=`cat /var/qmail/control/logcount` Should I just up the logsize? I've got plenty of disk space. I'm going over the miltilog man page and it is not obvious to me what the most efficient way of accomplishing this is :) Any suggestions or a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- PJF - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- h...@qmailtoaster.com --- -- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! --- -- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- h...@qmailtoaster.com - Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! - Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
