mail.log size

[news groups]

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

[Ruediger Noack]

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

[Brian M. Fisher]

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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[CHRIS_ANORUO · Accepted solution]

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!