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NAME

       exicyclog - Cycle exim's logfiles

SYNOPSIS

       eximcyclog

DESCRIPTION

       The exicyclog script can be used to cycle (rotate) mainlog and rejectlog files.  This is not necessary if
       only syslog is being used.  Some operating systems have their own standard mechanisms  for  log  cycling,
       and these can be used instead of exicyclog if preferred.

       Each  time  exicyclog  is  run  the  file names get ‘shuffled down’ by one.  If the main log file name is
       mainlog (the default) then when exicyclog is run mainlog  becomes  mainlog.01,  the  previous  mainlog.01
       becomes mainlog.02 and so on, up to a limit which is set in the script, and which defaults to 10.  Reject
       logs are handled similarly.

       If no mainlog file exists, the script does nothing.  Files that ‘drop off’  the  end  are  deleted.   All
       files with numbers greater than 01 are compressed, using a compression command which is configured by the
       COMPRESS_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile.  It is usual to run “exicyclog” daily from a  root  “crontab”
       entry of the form

         1 0 * * * su exim -c /usr/exim/bin/exicyclog

       assuming you have used the name ‘exim’ for the Exim user.  You can run exicyclog as root if you wish, but
       there is no need.

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in
       writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                 March 26, 2003                                     EXICYCLOG(8)