[Dovecot] rotate logs ?

[Jerry]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:34:00 +0100
Robert Schetterer <robert at schetterer.org> articulated:

> 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

The following works fine on a FreeBSD system (/etc/newsyslog.conf)

# logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when  flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/dovecot.log    vmail:vmail     664  1     *    $M1D0 CJ    /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 30


$M1D0   rotate at the first day of every month at midnight (i.e., the start of the day; same as @01T00)


-- 
Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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