What happens at 6:30 am (besides that fetchmail seems to crash)?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:04:05AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
> It's more complicated than that.  It looks like if I have "set syslog"
> in /etc/fetchmailrc, the fetchmail log stuff is written to both
> mail.log and syslog.  syslog is rotated by cron.daily via sysklogd.
> Running the restart command syslogd runs (/etc/init.d/sysklogd
> reload-or-restart) doesn't seem to bother fetchmail.  I have not
> figured out what rotates mail.log.

Take a look at your /etc/syslog.conf -- I expect you will see
something like:
mail.* 		/var/log/mail.log

which tells syslog to store copies of all mail log messages in
that file. It also probably has something like:

*.*		/var/log/syslog

which puts copies of everything into that file.

So syslog is doing all the logging.

logrotate is probably responsible for the log rotation.

You might want to investigate getmail
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

which, on the whole, is less buggy.

-dsr-

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