[Dovecot] Syslog, Dovecot, and LogWatch

[Chris Wakelin]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:44:04 -0400 Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> 
wrote:

> At what level does Dovecot log to syslog?  UW-IMAP uses local6.debug to 
> log to syslog, but it doesn't seem that dovecot does the same.. (the 
> file I defined for UW-IMAP's output hasn't received anything since I 
> moved over to Dovecot?

It looks like it's hard-coded to use "LOG_MAIL" facility and various 
levels. You could probably modify it to use a LOG_LOCAL<X> facility -  
see the "i_set_failure_syslog()" call in 
src/[master, auth, imap, pop3]/main.c

You can also opt not to use syslog at all, see dovecot-example.conf 
"log_path =" for how to specify log files.

Hope this helps,
Chris

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