Problem with permissions of the logfile

[Christian Kivalo]

Hi

Am 06. November 2015 17:09:20 MEZ, schrieb Andreas Meyer <a.meyer at nimmini.de>:
>Hello!
>
>I want to have dovecot log into a separate file and set
>log_path = /var/log/dovecot instead of log_path = syslog
>
>Dovecot does not start if I do this. Tried to change
>permissions and overschip of the file, no luck, ha.
>Deleted it in the hope dovecot creates it but no.
>
>If I set log_path = syslog dovecot starts and I see
>it is running as
>
># ps aux |grep dove
>root      2429  0.2  0.0   3416  2568 ?        Ss   16:42   0:00
>/usr/sbin/dovecot -F
>dovecot   2431  0.0  0.0   3100  2080 ?        S    16:42   0:00
>dovecot/anvil
>root      2432  0.0  0.0   3228  2316 ?        S    16:42   0:00
>dovecot/log
>root      2434  0.0  0.0   4220  3300 ?        S    16:42   0:00
>dovecot/config
>
>What must be done to have dovecot log into the specified file?
>
>Greetings
>
>  Andreas
Is the user dovecot is running as allowed to write to that file?

You could configure your syslog daemon to write all dovecot logging to a different file and don't write it to standard syslog file.

Regards
Christian