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smusumeche
Asked: 2014-12-18 07:03:30 +0800 CST

logrotate not emailing log

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My logs are being rotated properly, however, I am not being emailed the rotated log. What am I doing wrong?

My main logrotate.conf is:

include /etc/logrotate.d

here is my /etc/logrotate.d/php-errors:

/var/log/php-errors.log {
    rotate 7
    daily
    missingok
    notifempty
    mail [email protected]
}
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2 Answers

  1. You will need to ensure that you have sendmail (or an equivalent MTA) correctly configured to be capable of sending mail out, then specify the full path to the command in your configuration as above in /etc/logrotate.d/php-errors; 

    /var/log/php-errors.log {
    rotate 7
    daily
    missingok
    notifempty
    /bin/mail [email protected]
}
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  2. Best Answer

    Turns out I was misunderstand the mail command. It mails the log that is about to be deleted. I wanted the log that was just rotated, so I had to add the "mailfirst" directive to my configuration file.

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