[Esd-l] Sanitizer and logrotate

[Geovane Gonçalves]

Is not necessary restart any process?

Kill -HUP ......

Thank you.

Geovane



----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin at impsec.org>
To: "Informatica - Fenac" <informatica at fenac.com.br>
Cc: <esd-l at spconnect.com>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Esd-l] Sanitizer and logrotate


> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] Informatica - Fenac wrote:
>
> > Beyond my dificult with english, I'm a beginner in Linux world. I
> > tried logrotate with procmail but I has experienced a "crash" with
> > some mail spool files. I think that problem is the wrinting
> > process in log files at rotation moment.
>
> More likely the replacement log and quarantine files weren't created
> with the necessary permissions, and the sanitizer couldn't write to
> them after they were rotated.
>
> > I would like of tips a litle more detalhed about logrotate with
> > sanitizer.
>
> The only odd thing about rotating sanitizer-related files is the
> world-writable requirement on those files.
>
> The logrotate script posted earlier was interesting but overly
> complex. Try this:
>
> # individual user procmail log files
> /home/*/procmail.log {
> weekly
> rotate 6
> compress
> missingok
> }
>
> # the quarantine
> /var/spool/mail/quarantine {
> weekly
> size=25m
> rotate 6
> compress
> missingok
> create 622 root root
> }
>
> # the global log file (if you're not doing per-user logging)
> /var/log/procmail.log {
> weekly
> rotate 6
> compress
> missingok
> create 622 root root
> }
>
>
> Vary file and path names to suit local needs.
>
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