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From: "Jett Tayer" <jett@sycorax.ath.cx>
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if u have not disabled log rotation of ur maillog from the start u
installed ur box, log rotation of /var/log/maillog shoul rotate for it is
added by default in /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate regularly

check ur /etc/newsyslog.conf file

\jett



> I installed courier and since then my /var/log/maillog is nog rotated.
> Can someone explain to me how to set this up myself on fbsd-4.8?
>
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