Hi,

Can someone explain why XMail are rotating the logs at 23:00h by default?

Now to rotate the logs at 00:00h I need to put the option -Mr 0000 to call
XMail or -Mr 2400?

Can someone explain?

Thanks.

On 30 Oct 2003, Achim Schmidt wrote:

> 
> Am Don, 2003-10-30 um 01.08 schrieb Rob Arends:
> > Achim, first I must say, it looks very good.
> > 
> > This extract from your Install.txt worries me.
> > 
> > ! Also the logfiles must have the current date in its name (e.g.
> > pop3-200310250000),
> > ! (If your logs are rotated at 2300 you will have to create symlinks, like
> > ! pop3-200310250000 linked to pop3-200310242300.)
> > 
> > What happens if "-Mr 01" (Set log rotate hours step) is used, this will mean
> > that not all the logs will be read by RDDtool.
> > 
> > I would suggest that files smtp-*, pop3-*, etc are read, that way the
> > problem of 2300 rotations are also resolved.
> > 
> 
> currently the last 4 digits of the logs name are ignored (e.g.
> pop3-20031030*) - but greping all logfiles is a cool idea (i really
> didn't think about that yet) - it only brings along a little overhead. 
> 
> i just tried 
> $ grep "2003-10-30 01:0" /var/MailRoot/logs/smtp-* | wc
> 
> this simply lasted for about 20 seconds, because i have logfiles since
> 2001 sitting in the directory...
> 
> So I'll give a try for logs-YYYY*
> 
> Rob, Thanks for the idea!
> 
> - Achim
> 
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