[Dovecot] send HUP when rotating log?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 20 17:01:57 EEST 2010


On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:09 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote:

> Is it necessary for Dovecot2 to send it a SIGHUP when I rotate its log
> files?
> I'm asking because then I must turn off the 'shutdown_clients' option,
> because then every user gets disconnected while rotating the logs.

You can rotate logs with SIGUSR1. Or with v2.0 you can do it in a pretty
way with:

doveadm log reopen




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