On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:08:24AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On 6 February 2012 17:49, Dennis Guhl dg@dguhl.org wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:33:01PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I have a new Scientific Linux 6.1 mail server (dovecot -n below) and am seeing the following in the logs, with no idea what is happening:
--------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------
Dovecot was killed, and not restarted afterwards.
You shut dovecot down and does not restart it.
It appears to be doing things without my intervention. Despite the reports that it kept shutting down, Dovecot continued to serve messages throughout the day.
The messages logwatch shows appeared at some time within the analysed period and are not necessarily in a time sorted order. Btw do not rely on any summary of log files but look into the log yourself.
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You mean the version of logwatch is too old? I'm beginning to wonder
Yes, the current version is 7.4.0 from march 2011 (http://www.logwatch.org).
whether running an Enterprise version is such a good idea after all.
I don't know Scientific Linux but I use Debian stable on all my server and I'm very happy with it. Nonetheless do I manually upgrade some packages wich added needed features or are maintained by upstream.
It is crucial to know and understand the philosophy behind a distribution and to decide if this works for you and if you can live with the caveats resulting.
Dennis