What is rotating my mail logs
It's logrotate(8)
.
In /etc/crontab
, this line:
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
...uses run-parts(8)
to run all the scripts in /etc/cron.daily
, including /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
, which invokes /usr/sbin/logrotate
with the configuration file /etc/logrotate.conf
, which includes the config files in /etc/logrotate.d
, including /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
... which includes a directive to rotate /var/log/mail.log
.