Quoting Mart Pirita sysadmin@e-positive.ee:
log_path = /var/log/maillog info_log_path = /var/log/maillog
Could be dangerous, unless all programs writing to /var/log/maillog use append mode (and it is on local disks, etc).
Now when log files are rotating at 04:00 (maillog > maillog.1) dovecot still keeps login into maillog.1 and not into maillog, where sendmail, etc writes logs.
Yes, sounds right.
The only solution I did found, is adding into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog command to restart dovecot:
/var/log/maillog { postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot restart >/dev/null 2>&1 endscript
}Any other solution?
Have dovecot log via syslog instead of to a file, and the problem goes away.
-- Mart
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
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