Man page 8 : exicyclog

exicyclog - Cycle exim's logfiles

eximcyclog

The

exicyclog script can be used to cycle (rotate) mainlogand rejectlogfiles. This is not necessary if only syslog is being used. Some operating systems have their own standard mechanisms for log cycling, and these can be used instead of

exicyclog if preferred. Each time

exicyclog is run the file names get (oqshuffled down(cq by one. If the main log file name is mainlog (the default) then when

exicyclog is run mainlog becomes mainlog.01, the previous mainlog.01 becomes mainlog.02 and so on, up to a limit which is set in the script, and which defaults to 10. Reject logs are handled similarly. If no mainlog file exists, the script does nothing. Files that (oqdrop off(cq the end are deleted. All files with numbers greater than 01 are compressed, using a compression command which is configured by the COMPRESS_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile. It is usual to run « exicyclog » daily from a root « crontab » entry of the form 1 0 * * * su exim -c /usr/exim/bin/exicyclog assuming you have used the name (oqexim(cq for the Exim user. You can run

exicyclog as root if you wish, but there is no need.

This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated.

R exim (8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).