rotating logfiles

["Neil J. McRae" <neil@demon.net>]

I've borrowed a little script to rotate logfiles, however this cause some
problems with zmailer. 

Dec  8 00:07:25 office mailbox: Cannot open control file "local/15241" from
"/var/spool/postoffice/scheduler" as uid 0! (No such file or directory)
Dec  8 00:07:25 office mailbox: Cannot open control file "local/15241" from
"/var/spool/postoffice/scheduler" as uid 0! (No such file or directory)

here is the script I used:
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#
#
LOG=router
cd /usr/spool/log
test -f $LOG.2 && mv $LOG.2 $LOG.3
test -f $LOG.1 && mv $LOG.1 $LOG.2
test -f $LOG.0 && mv $LOG.0 $LOG.1
mv $LOG   $LOG.0
cp /dev/null $LOG
chmod 644    $LOG
echo $LOG
#
LOGDIR=/usr/spool/log
LOG=scheduler
if test -d $LOGDIR
then
	cd $LOGDIR
	if test -s $LOG
	then
		test -f $LOG.2 && mv $LOG.2  $LOG.3
		test -f $LOG.1 && mv $LOG.1  $LOG.2
		test -f $LOG.0 && mv $LOG.0  $LOG.1
		mv $LOG    $LOG.0
		cp /dev/null $LOG
		chmod 666    $LOG
		sleep 40
	fi
echo $LOG
fi
##
LOGDIR=/usr/spool/log
LOG=smtp
if test -d $LOGDIR
then
    cd $LOGDIR
    if test -s $LOG
    then
        test -f $LOG.2 && mv $LOG.2  $LOG.3
        test -f $LOG.1 && mv $LOG.1  $LOG.2
        test -f $LOG.0 && mv $LOG.0  $LOG.1
        mv $LOG    $LOG.0
        cp /dev/null $LOG
        chmod 666    $LOG
        sleep 40
    fi
echo $LOG
fi
#
if [ -r /etc/zmailer.conf ]; then
. /etc/zmailer.conf
	if [ ${MAILSERVER-NONE} = NONE -a -x $MAILBIN/zmailer ]; then
		echo
		$MAILBIN/zmailer bootclean
		echo
		$MAILBIN/zmailer & echo  ' zmailer restarted.'
	fi
fi
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Is this the best way to do it?

Ideally I want to rotate logs via cron anyone else done this with success?


Regards,
Neil

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Neil J. McRae                                 Demon Internet
neil@demon.net