[Dovecot] dovecot logs to audit.log not to maillog

Ralf Heidenreich ralf at lx-work.de
Tue Feb 10 10:07:26 EET 2009


Hello,

here is my dovecot.conf
------snip----------
log_path = /var/log/maillog
info_log_path = /var/log/maillog
-------snip-------------
Is it possible, than logrotate rotates the maillog, and dovecot wants to 
  write to it, if the maillog is not available at the moment, dovecot 
writes to audit.log?
I don't know.
Have you any ideas?

greetings ralf

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:55 +0100, Ralf Heidenreich wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a curious phenomenon.
>> Dovecot logs normally to /var/log/maillog.
>> If I restart my server, dovecot loggs to /var/log/audit/audit.log.
>> If I restart dovecot, dovecot loggs to /var/log/maillog again.
>> And I think, wenn logrotate is restarting, dovecot logs to audit.log.
>> But I don't know why.
>> Any Ideas?
> 
> By default Dovecot logs to syslog. Maybe your syslog configuration
> changes after boot?
> 



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