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Title: Mail Log File Analysis Time Frame?
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on October 28, 2003, 09:58:33 AM

Hello,

I have only just started using the reports grenerated by this part of the server-manager and was wondering what sort of time period does the reports cover, Days, Weeks, Months, Years, Decades?

There are a couple of posts that ask this question but have not been answered so just trying to get the definitive answer.

Running SME 5.6u5.

Thanks,

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Mail Log File Analysis Time Frame?
Post by: Ray Mitchell on October 29, 2003, 04:15:48 AM

As best as I can determine, logs are rotated weekly, so what you see in a current log file is one weeks worth of data.
The system keeps 4 weeks worth of old logs and then trashes them

Regs
Ray

Title: Re: Mail Log File Analysis Time Frame?
Post by: Charlie Brady on October 29, 2003, 06:29:56 AM

Ray Mitchell wrote:
 
> As best as I can determine, logs are rotated weekly ...

Many logs are managed by multilog, and are rotated when they get to a particular size (you can tell which by the most recent being called "current"). How soon they are rotated is determined by how fast they grow.

Charlie

Title: Re: Mail Log File Analysis Time Frame?
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on October 29, 2003, 06:44:58 AM

Charlie,

So basically the reports are based on all of the log files in the /var/logs/qmail directory right?

Cyrus Bharda