[Dovecot] Imap logging and inetd

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 14 07:54:41 EET 2008


On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 23:06 -0500, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:48 -0500, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> >> Jonathan Siegle said the following on 12/2/08 7:16 AM:
> >>> 	When I ran /usr/local/sbin/dovecot, the variable
> >>> login_log_format_elements from dovecot.conf was honored. Now when  
> >>> I run
> >>> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login from /etc/inetd.conf, it  
> >>> isn't.
> >>> How do I get imap-login to write log lines that use
> >>> login_log_format_elements for the format?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This is dovecot-1.2.alpha3 soon to be alpha4.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Jonathan
> >> I found where to get my desired result in src/master/mail-process.c.
> >
> > Huh? mail-process.c only affects post-login imap/pop3. What did you
> > change?
> >
> The goal was to print a line with the user and the IP address with a  
> date/time stamp. So I send those to syslog from here. Is that bad  
> information? I haven't gotten bad info from it yet..

Oh, I guess that'll work. Anyway the problem isn't about ignoring any
settings. It's that when running via inetd it logs to stderr. In my
system that gets logged to /var/log/syslog.
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