[Dovecot] rotate logs ?

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 18.01.2011 20:50, schrieb Mark Alan:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:53:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Be sure to send a SIGUSR1 signal to dovecot process too so that it
>> reopens the logs. (With v2.0 you can use doveadm log reopen.)
> 
> Would this do?
> 
> /var/log/dovecot.log {
>   weekly
>   rotate 4
>   create 600 root root
>   size 64k
>   compress
>   notifempty
>   postrotate
>     [ -f /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ] && kill -USR1 $(cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
>     endscript
> }
> 
> 
> M.

be aware that new /var/log/dovecot.log after rotate is writable to the
dovecot user
after all i would use daily

logrotate differs a little bit from distro to distro

simply try it

logrotate --help
Usage: logrotate [OPTION...] <configfile>
  -d, --debug               Don't do anything, just test (implies -v)
  -f, --force               Force file rotation
  -m, --mail=command        Command to send mail (instead of
`/usr/bin/mail')
  -s, --state=statefile     Path of state file
  -v, --verbose             Display messages during rotation

so i.e

 logrotate -f -v /etc/logrotate.d/dovecot
will help to test

and/or

look
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging



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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria