Nick Read on 11 Oct 2004 12:22:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Logrotate


Thanks

I need to keep records of all mail flow through the
gateway so if anyone can recommend a more elegant way
of doing this would be appreciated.

Regards

Nick
--- sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:

> hi nick,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:51:54AM -0700, Nick Read
> wrote:
> > I would like some help please with emailing our
> mail
> > logs to an account.
> > 
> > I am running Fedora2 and Sendmail 8.1
> > 
> > I have managed to get the logwatch logs to mail
> out
> > but not sure how to email our maillogs.
> 
> assuming you actually have a good reason for mailing
> mail
> logs, your best bet would be something like:
> 
> /var/log/mail.log {
> 	# rest of your options
> 	prerotate
> 	mail -s "mail logs" root < /var/log/mail.log
> 	endscript
> }
> 
> but i'd first ask yourself whether you really need
> those
> mail logs emailed in the first place, as opposed to
> having some log
> summarizing script run over them.
> 
> 
> 	sean
> 

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