/var/log/maillog file size

vaughn · 12-12-2003, 03:42 AM

Is there anyway that I can reduce the size of the /var/log/maillog file which gets written to by Postfix? Is there some line that I can add in main.cf? thx

vladkrack · 12-12-2003, 04:26 PM

You could consider use the logrotate, it could control the size of your log files ....

jules_fraser · 12-12-2003, 05:08 PM

Am looking at that now. I need a system whereas the logfile gets no larger than 25k. I have deleted the original maillog file because it was nearly 700k and you can imagine how hard it was to scroll down to the end. Prob is that after I have restarted Postfix, it no longer writes to the new log file. Why is this?

jules_fraser · 12-12-2003, 05:15 PM

Have worked out the maillog no write issue. Have restarted syslog. For the benefit of others:
/etc/init.d/syslog restart. Fingers crossed, I have made amendments to logrotate to have a file size of just 5k. thx

Pcghost · 12-12-2003, 10:01 PM

I set up a script that emails the file to my work email and deletes the file every six hours. That way I have a record of all incoming email stored off the machine. When the boss comes asking about this or that message not getting in, I can show him the logs and exonerate my postfix/spamassassin system.

jules_fraser · 12-13-2003, 04:02 AM

Do you have an example of this script Pcghost?

Pcghost · 12-15-2003, 05:12 PM

The script reads as follows

mail me@myaddress.com < /var/log/maillog
cat /dev/null > /var/log/maillog

Then I set a cron job to execute the script every 6 hours and voila.