Logrotate, changing defaults!

[mikeNAM]

I know this more of a Linux question than Zimbra, but maybe some of you have already done it and can help. I'd like to keep more versions of the /var/log/maillog and /var/log/zimbra.log, to e exact 36 days. So I changed the logrotate conf:

/etc/logrotate.d/zimbra to:

/var/log/zimbra.log {
daily
rotate 36 # Keep the last 36 days
missingok
notifempty
olddir /var/log/archive
create 0644 zimbra zimbra
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd 2> /dev/null || true
su - zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmswatchctl restart" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
compress
}

But this just doesn´t want to work! Any ideas on that one?

ThanX.

[jrefl5]

Move the comment off the rotate line?

per the man page for logrotate;

Note that comments may appear anywhere in the config file as long as the first non-whitespace character on the line is a #.

[mikenamib]

ThanX jrefl5, I will check on that!

[momok]

hi all!

I changed the /etc/logrotate.d/zimbra :

/var/log/zimbra.log {
    daily
    rotate 365
    missingok
    notifempty
    create 0644 zimbra zimbra
    postrotate
      killall -HUP syslogd 2> /dev/null || true
      su - zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmswatchctl restart" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
    compress
}

But it didn't help. The number of logs remains unchanged as set by default. Default numbers of logs equal is 7.
Any idea?

[LMStone]

I'm not 100% sure, but have you tried doing as the zimbra user:

zmlogswatchctl stop; zmlogswatchctl start; zmlogswatchctl status

after you edited /etc/logrotate.d/zimbra?

Hope that helps,
Mark

[momok]

So I changed the logrotate:

/etc/logrotate.d/zimbra

/var/log/zimbra.log {
    daily
    rotate 365
    missingok
    notifempty
    noolddir
    create 0644 zimbra zimbra
    postrotate
      killall -HUP syslogd 2> /dev/null || true
      su - zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmswatchctl restart" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
    compress
}

Than I added "noolddir" setting and it started to work
All changes were made as root.

[zeirum]

The issue it seems is that the crontab for the zimbra user. It purges log files that are modified older than 8 days, so no matter how you change the logrotate option it will only keep 8 days

the command that does this:
30 2 * * * find /opt/zimbra/log/ -type f -name \*.log\* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1