Automatically "recreate" mail.log on reboot ?

[Steven E. Protter]

here is how i do it in the /sbin/init.d/sendmail startup script

/usr/bin/mv /var/adm/syslog/mail.log /tmp
/usr/bin/touch /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
/usr/bin/chmod 000 /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
/usr/bin/chmod a+r /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

I don't have access to the box, so this is a paraphrase.

SEP

[Jeff Schussele]

Sri makes a good point - as always....
syslogd start *before* (220 vs 540) than sendmail.
So it's probably gotta be a diff startup OR or sendmail bounce to make sure.

Jeff

[Geoff Wild]

Another alternative is to use something like logrotate:

Logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.

http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/logrotate-2.5/

Rgds...Geoff