log rotations with multilog

Hi,
I guess multilog keeps 5 versions of the log files and each about 90k in
size, but I would like to keep 20 versions and 5mb in size, here is what
I did (based on http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html):
I changed log/run files from:

exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
/var/log/qmail

to
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog s5242880
n20 t /var/log/qmail

This, caused the "current" log file not to stamp the time in it and for
sure did not grow to 5mb. Then I changes it to:
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
/var/log/qmail s5242880 n20

This time I saw the time stamp back on the logs but did not grow to 5mb.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Vahid.

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:56:00 GMT, Vahid <NOSPAM-sunman@ureach.com> may have written:
> Hi,
> I guess multilog keeps 5 versions of the log files and each about 90k in
> size, but I would like to keep 20 versions and 5mb in size, here is what
> I did (based on http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html):
> I changed log/run files from:
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> /var/log/qmail
>
> to
> exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog s5242880
> n20 t /var/log/qmail
>
> This, caused the "current" log file not to stamp the time in it and for
> sure did not grow to 5mb. Then I changes it to:
> exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> /var/log/qmail s5242880 n20
>
> This time I saw the time stamp back on the logs but did not grow to 5mb.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You didn't try the last obvious way to do it.

exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5242880 n20 /var/log/qmail

Enjoy,
--
Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services

Brian T Glenn wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:56:00 GMT, Vahid <NOSPAM-sunman@ureach.com> may have written:
>
>>Hi,
>>I guess multilog keeps 5 versions of the log files and each about 90k in
>>size, but I would like to keep 20 versions and 5mb in size, here is what
>>I did (based on http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html):
>>I changed log/run files from:
>>
>>exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
>>/var/log/qmail
>>
>>to
>>exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog s5242880
>>n20 t /var/log/qmail
>>
>>This, caused the "current" log file not to stamp the time in it and for
>>sure did not grow to 5mb. Then I changes it to:
>>exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
>>/var/log/qmail s5242880 n20
>>
>>This time I saw the time stamp back on the logs but did not grow to 5mb.
>>
>>What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> You didn't try the last obvious way to do it.
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5242880 n20 /var/log/qmail
>
No I did not, because I thought the directory name must come after the t.
Thank you very much.

> Enjoy,