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[Sean Hennessee <address@concealed>]

Can someone explain to me how Sympa does log rotation? And also where this is 
configured?

I would like to have it rotate everyday and add a date stamp to the name of 
each file. I am running CentOS 6.4. I tried setting up 'logrotate', but that 
doesn't seem to be working.

I have noticed that my log files rotate in what appears to be randomly. I 
have these log files, in /var/log, since starting to use Sympa last June:
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa    0 Oct  9 10:48 sympa.log
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa  57M Jun 20 10:52 sympa.log-20130620
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa 509M Aug 19 08:18 sympa.log-20130624
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa  50M Oct  3 06:36 sympa.log-20130820
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa  82M Oct  9 10:51 sympa.log-20131004
The rotation does not seem to be based on size or date. The latest log file 
is still not being used; the old renamed file is still being updated. How do 
you 'kick' Sympa to start a using the new log file? I tried 'service sympa 
restart', but that didn't do it.

My /etc/sympa/sympa.conf file has this log section in it, sans comments:
syslog  LOCAL1
log_socket_type unix
log_level       0
log_smtp        off
logs_expiration_period  3

My /etc/rsyslogd.conf file has this line in it at the end:
local1.* /var/log/sympa.log

My /etc/rsyslog.d/sympa.conf file has only this line in it:
local1.* /var/log/sympa.log

My /etc/logrotate.d/sympa file to has this in it:
/var/log/sympa.log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    create 640 sympa sympa
}

My /etc/logrotate.conf file has this in it, sans comments:
weekly
rotate 4
create
dateext
include /etc/logrotate.d
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
        minsize 1M
    rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0600 root utmp
    rotate 1
}



Peace,
Sean

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Sean Hennessee
Enterprise & Unix Services
Office of Information Technology
UC Irvine