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author | Thomas Morper <thomas@beingboiled.info> | 2010-04-07 22:30:26 -0500 |
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committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-15 10:24:20 +0200 |
commit | ffd97168269b59ebcd2b1697cbeedc8fa1329cec (patch) | |
tree | 94dfb67ecd0bac515f5ab185684fa0ce7055ad0f /network/exim/manpages/exicyclog.8 | |
parent | 669ea352d9812695a8921a735bb0ab63ea32414d (diff) | |
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network/exim: Added. exim is a sendmail replacement.
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diff --git a/network/exim/manpages/exicyclog.8 b/network/exim/manpages/exicyclog.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ec89d1aca8 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/exim/manpages/exicyclog.8 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH EXICYCLOG 8 "March 26, 2003" +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.\" \(oqthis text is enclosed in single quotes\(cq +.\" \(lqthis text is enclosed in double quotes\(rq +.SH NAME +exicyclog \- Cycle exim's logfiles +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B eximcyclog +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B exicyclog +script can be used to cycle (rotate) +.I mainlog +and +.I rejectlog +files. +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 +.B exicyclog +if preferred. + +Each time +.B exicyclog +is run the file names get \(oqshuffled down\(cq by one. +If the main log file name is mainlog (the default) then when +.B 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 \(lqexicyclog\(rq daily from a root \(lqcrontab\(rq 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 +.B exicyclog +as root if you wish, but there is no need. + + +.SH BUGS +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. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8) + +.SH AUTHOR +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). |