exicyclog(8)

NAME
exicyclog - program to cycle exim logs

SYNOPSIS
exicyclog

DESCRIPTION
The exicyclog script cycles the main and reject log files. Each time it is run the files get 'shuffled down' by one. The mainlog file becomes mainlog.1, the previous mainlog.1 becomes mainlog.2 and so on, up to a limit which is set in the script, and which defaults to 10. However, if no mainlog file exists, the script does nothing. Reject logs are handled similarly. Files that 'drop off' the end are deleted. All files with numbers greater than 1 are compressed, using a compression command which is configured in the script. It is usual to run exicyclog daily from a crontab entry of the form
  1 0 * * * /usr/sbin/exicyclog In this way, each day's log is (mostly) in a separate file. There will be some overlap from processes that have the log open at the time of renaming. The exicyclog script can be run as the Exim user when one is defined, as the log files will be owned by that user in that case. Otherwise it has to be run as root.

SEE ALSO
There is extensive documentation available in /usr/share/doc/exim and in the info system regarding exim. Please be sure to have the exim-doc package installed.

AUTHOR
This manual page was stitched together by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org> from the original documentation coming with the sourcepackage for the Debian GNU/Linux system.