Suggest the use of newsyslog(8) for log rotation. The exicyclog

utility supplied with Exim is intended for systems that don't have
something as nifty as newsyslog(8).

I'm tempted to remove the utility from the port/package, but this
delta to pkg-message is less controversial.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mail/exim-old/pkg-message b/mail/exim-old/pkg-message
index 710778898b6b..2fde427649c2 100644
--- a/mail/exim-old/pkg-message
+++ b/mail/exim-old/pkg-message
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ The following documentation has been installed:
     info 'Exim Filtering'	-> Exim Filter Specification (for end-users)
 
 Postscript, PDF, HTML and plain text versions of these documents, as well
-as a comprehensive FAQ list, are available on the Exim web site:
-
-	http://www.exim.org/
+as a comprehensive FAQ list, are available at http://www.exim.org/ .
 
 To replace sendmail with Exim:
 
@@ -16,3 +14,10 @@ To replace sendmail with Exim:
 3) Adjust mailer.conf(5) and set 'sendmail_enable' and 'sendmail_flags'
    as appropriate in rc.conf(5).
 4) Start exim with appropriate command-line options.
+
+You may also want to configure newsyslog(8) to rotate Exim log files:
+
+# Only HUP Exim once when rejectlog and mainlog are rotated.
+/var/log/exim/mainlog	sendmail:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z /var/run/exim.pid
+/var/log/exim/rejectlog sendmail:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z
+