Hi Hope somebody can help me:) We specify the rotation of the logfile maillog as follows: /var/log/maillog { rotate 7 daily compress postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } For some reason the command doesn't succeed, i.e. the signal never reaches the syslog daemon. Consequently, syslogd will continue to write to a INODE that no longer has a file pointer effectively resulting is log data being lost. However, if the command is modified to: sleep 1; /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true the problem disappears. The easiest way to test this is to do the following commands when configurating the logfile /var/log/maillog as given above: #/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size is 0 #logger -p mail.info -t info TESTING #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size is still 0 #/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` #logger -p mail.info -t info TESTING #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size no longer is 0 Thanks /Mattias