topic mail.log size in Operating System - HP-UX

mail.log size

news groups — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:47:36 GMT

Can someone tell me if this log file keeps on growing, or if it is autotrimmed by the sendmail daemon..
Or will it get reduced in size only after a reboot...
Thanks

Re: mail.log size

Ruediger Noack — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:54:16 GMT

I think default you have to do this manually,
move, trim or make a rc-script.
But there are so many hpux versions ...

Re: mail.log size

Brian M. Fisher — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:54:32 GMT

The mail.log will keep growing without bound even after a reboot.
An option to keep it small is to mv it to a different name on a regular basis and then issue the following:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

This will force syslogd to re-read it's configuration file, thus creating a new mail.log file

Brian
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Re: mail.log size

CHRIS_ANORUO — Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:14:27 GMT

Try using this command:
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
This will reduce the log to zero and you can include this in your crontab file.

cheers!