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Re: logrotate - got compressed log

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On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:04:12 +0100
kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) wrote:

> Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi Kamil,
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:  
> >> I have logrotate with config (excerpt)
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> compress  
> >
> > […]
> >  
> >> And since some days I started to receive *compressed* old syslog
> >> files :( instead uncompressed ones.   
> >
> > If you have the "compress" directive there you should expect to get
> > compressed logs.  
> Sorry, I did not write precisely.
> I started to receive compressed old logs by *mail*.
> So far, there were simple text in mail.
> 
> I understand, that old files on disk are compressed.
> 

Presumably you should be emailed the file after rotation, when it has
been closed, i.e. the version you should get is <logfile>.1 which if
originating with rsyslog, should not be compressed. <logfile>.2 and
subsequent should be compressed.

-- 
Joe

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logrotate - got compressed log kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) - 2017-02-04 10:40 +0100
  Re: logrotate - got compressed log Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-02-04 17:20 +0100
    Re: logrotate - got compressed log kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) - 2017-02-04 18:30 +0100
      Re: logrotate - got compressed log Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-04 20:30 +0100
      Re: logrotate - got compressed log kjonca@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) - 2017-02-05 09:30 +0100
    Re: logrotate - got compressed log Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-04 20:30 +0100

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