# Configuring Logging to Email

We assume you have installed syslog-ng, exim, mail-utils, ...

```
cat > /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng 
/var/log/syslog
{
        rotate 7
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        delaycompress
        compress
        mailfirst
        mail randy@psg.com
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d syslog-ng reload > /dev/null
        endscript
}

/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
        rotate 4
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d syslog-ng reload > /dev/null
        endscript
}
```