logrotate and mailman

Peter Smith peter.smith at utsouthwestern.edu
Wed Jan 5 22:14:39 UTC 2005


Paul Tomblin wrote:

>I just noticed that the mailman bounce log messages aren't going into
>/var/log/mailman/bounce, but rather to /var/log/mailman/bounce.1.  It
>looks a lot like logrotate did the actual log file rotation, but
>didn't do whatever it takes to make mailman close its log files and
>open them again.
>
>  
>
Have you made a Bug entry for this?  Also, are you running any level of 
SELinux?  I believe that logrotate is not sending the HUP signals 
correctly and the threads that get their logs rotated are continuing to 
write to the same log..

Peter




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