[Mailman-Users] Cleaning up Mailman log files

[Mark Sapiro]

runner at winning.com wrote:

>Does Mailman need to be stopped before cleaning up the log files or can I just "cat /dev/null > error" 


It is best to do

bin/mailmanctl reopen

following any logfile changes done while Mailman is running.

Why not use logrotate?  A typical config excerpt for logrotate is
something like

list of paths to mailman's logs {
    missingok
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /path/to/bin/mailmanctl reopen >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
}

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