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Is it possible to modify rotation settings for maillog on Plesk server?

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Leonid Gukhman
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Question

Is it possible to change rotation settings for /var/log/maillog?

Answer

It is not possible to manage rotation settings for /var/log/maillog. By design, /var/log/maillog is rotated every day during Plesk Daily Maintenance task.

As an alternative, /var/log/maillog.proccessed rotation settings may be changed instead. After Daily Maintenance Task is executed, all log data is moved from /var/log/maillogto /var/log/maillog.proccessed.

To modify /var/log/maillog.proccessed rotation settings, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to the server via SSH.

  2. Edit the settings in the /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf file:

    CONFIG_TEXT: /var/log/maillog.processed {

    weekly
    missingok
    rotate 3
    compress
    nocreate
    }

Note: Use one of the following words to set the rotation frequency: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.

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    Lenusch

    Will this change to /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf stay after update? Or possible be overriden? 

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    turgut kalfaoglu

    Is it possible to change the file mode of /var/log/maillog then?

    Would it stay if changed manually? I have some processes that are unable to append to it because of its 700 rights..

     

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