Postfix monitoring with mailgraph & pflogsumm debian lenny

Hi,

I have followed the following tutorial :

Assistance http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix-monitoring-with-mailgraph-and-pflogsumm-on-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

 

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.

 

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 !

 

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 :

Code:

# 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 ?

 

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,

i think i found the mad act...

inside rsyslog is the following :

Code:

/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

 

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

 

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 !

 

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" <[email protected]>

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