Postfix monitoring with mailgraph & pflogsumm debian lenny

[MiniMe]

Hi,

I have followed the following tutorial :

Assistance http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix-mo...n-debian-lenny

But now i have the following issues. Since the install of the above i get the following email each day :

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: /etc/logrotate.conf:33 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mail.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

And the generated email that should show the spam counters etc just results in an empty email every day at 7 am, an email without a subject and without a body.

Any idea what may be wrong ?

Regards,
MiniMe

[falko]

Please take a look at /etc/logrotate.conf and the configuration files inside the /etc/logrotate.d directory to see if there's another stanza for /var/log/mail.log. If so, comment it out.

[MiniMe]

Sorry for double postign, i just noticed i posted this question in the wrong forum ! :$

I will check the logs and report back, thank you !

[MiniMe]

Hey

In /etc/logrotate.d i only have the following files :

Aphrodite-Artemis:/etc/logrotate.d# dir
apache2 aptitude clamav-freshclam exim4-base mysql-server rsyslog
apt clamav-daemon dpkg exim4-paniclog razor vsftpd

inside /etc/logrotate.conf i have :

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0660 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/mail.log {
    missingok
    daily
    rotate 7
    create
    compress
    start 0
}

Any idea what could be wrong ?

[falko]

Please take a look at the files inside the /etc/logrotate.d directory - I guess exim4-base is the one, but you should check out the others as well.

[MiniMe]

Hey,

i think i found the mad act...

inside rsyslog is the following :

/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
#/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
        rotate 4
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d rsyslog reload > /dev/null
        endscript
}

As you can see, i just deactived the mail.log line, you think it should be fixed now ?
Thx for ur help

[Mark_NL]

mail.log is part of rsyslog, so your change should fix your issue with the error

[MiniMe]

Originally Posted by falko

Please take a look at the files inside the /etc/logrotate.d directory - I guess exim4-base is the one, but you should check out the others as well.

Hey,

the message has dissapeared after my fix
but the mail is still empty : no body, no subject ...

Any idea ?

EDIT:

the flogstuff command shows text, but it seems to me the next command formail is wrong.
is there another command to use ( and with which options ) can i use ?
the formail command seems completely wrong and not available

please help !

[MiniMe]

Since no one really bothered to help ...

i found a solution myself :

use the following command instead of the one provided in the tutorial :

pflogsumm /var/log/mail.log.0 | mail -s "Mail Statistics" <your@mailaddress.com>

seems like the command used there, is not valid on debian lenny 5.0 ...