[Dovecot] Command output: Failed to write to log file

[Nick Lunt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
> Sent: 13 July 2010 12:45
> To: Nick Lunt
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Command output: Failed to write to log file
> 
> On 13.7.2010, at 9.53, Nick Lunt wrote:
> 
> > Jul 13 09:41:56 findb postfix/local[16000]: 3B7EF56ABA:
> > to=<enduser at thishost.com>, relay=local, delay=0.05,
> > delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary
> failure.
> > Command output: Failed to write to log file)
> >
> > Our postfix server started logging the above messages so I was
> thinking
> > I had a postfix issue, but it turned out that recreating the
> dovecot.log
> > file fixed the issue.
> > Does the /var/log/dovecot.log file require special permissions or
can
> it
> > only grow to a certain size ?
> 
> See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#logging, especially the part about
> Postfix's mailbox_size_limit.

Aha that must be it, thanks for the pointer, much appreciated.
Nick.
 
 

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