Panix Help System: Rotating procmail logs

Rotating procmail log files

The default procmail configuration records actions in $HOME/.procmail/log . To prevent the log files from getting large enough to waste space and interfere with users' disk quotas, we "age out" these files.

If: •you have a file named $HOME/.procmail/log and; •that file is at least 300k in size and; • it has been a month or more since the last time your logs were rotated
then: your log will be compressed (gzip) and renamed log.0.gz.; Up to three most recent versions of the logfile (log.0.gz, log.1.gz, and log.2.gz) will be retained - older logs will be deleted.

If you don't want your logs rotated and you don't want to change the name of your log you can avoid rotation by creating a file called ".norotate" (don't forget the leading period) in your home directory.

This sequence of commands
cd
touch .norotate
from a Unix shell will do that.