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Do I need some aditional configuration settings?
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Do I need some aditional configuration settings?

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also try read the man page of logrotate :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/logrotate.8.html" rel="ugc">http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/logrotate.8.html</a><br />
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hope this info can help
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also try read the man page of logrotate :)

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/logrotate.8.html [http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/logrotate.8.html]

hope this info can help

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That's not going to work as is. 'mail' is a very simple program that isn't &quot;attachment aware&quot; and it simply mailed you the compressed data &quot;as is&quot;. Either don't compress the log, which will send it as plain text, or compress and then uuencode the log.
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That's not going to work as is. 'mail' is a very simple program that isn't "attachment aware" and it simply mailed you the compressed data "as is". Either don't compress the log, which will send it as plain text, or compress and then uuencode the log.

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Hi...I have installed logrotate to rotate some logs, I put the configuration file something like this...<br />
<br />
/var/log/process.log {<br />
&nbsp;daily<br />
&nbsp;rotate 3<br />
&nbsp;compress<br />
&nbsp;size=100M<br />
&nbsp;mail myuser@server.com<br />
}<br />
<br />
But It didn´t work when It tried to send me an e-mail, I got some like this....<br />
<br />
from: root@server.com<br />
to: myuser@server.com<br />
subject: process.log.1.gz<br />
ýçßýóoÿøÇÿü¿ýóïÿõŸþø‡“õ_ýý<wbr />øó¿ü;Âòßý<wbr />Åßÿ‡øë¿üË<wbr />¿ù«TÌüúÍ_o<wbr /><br />
càÍ€Žªtä·…Ì¾Æ·/Í€[^<br />
<br />
I didn´t &nbsp;receive the attachtment, just a lotta symbols.<br />
<br />
Thx...for your help.<br />
<br />
Regards..<br />
MARIO
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Hi...I have installed logrotate to rotate some logs, I put the configuration file something like this...

/var/log/process.log {
 daily
 rotate 3
 compress
 size=100M
 mail myuser@server.com
}

But It didn´t work when It tried to send me an e-mail, I got some like this....

from: root@server.com
to: myuser@server.com
subject: process.log.1.gz
ýçßýóoÿøÇÿü¿ýóïÿõŸþø‡“õ_ýýøó¿ü;ÂòßýÅßÿ‡øë¿üË¿ù«TÌüúÍ_o
càÍ€Žªtä·…Ì¾Æ·/Í€[^

I didn´t  receive the attachtment, just a lotta symbols.

Thx...for your help.

Regards..
MARIO

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