Pascal Volk user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org: On 05/09/2013 02:02 PM Steinar Bang wrote: After upgrading my IMAP server to the new debian stable, and upgrading dovecot from 1.x to 2.1.7 in the process, dovecot no longer logs anything to /var/log/mail.*. The last entries there are from before the upgrade, and no starts or error messages or failed login attempts, since then, have been logged.
Did you read /usr/share/doc/dovecot-core/{NEWS,README}.Debian.gz?
I've read the README.Debian.gz file. I couldn't find anything about logging configuration there. Still can't. I just looked.
I hadn't looked in the NEWS file, but now I have. Nothing there either.
Please don't copy and paste stuff from files in Dovecot's configuration directory. Always provide the output generated by
doveconf -n.
Hard to explain that something didn't make it from the config file to the actual config without providing an example of what was lost.
,--[ doveadm-log(1) ]--
COMMANDS log find doveadm log find [directory]
The log find command is used to show the location of the log files, to which dovecot(1) sends its log messages. If dovecot(1) logs its messages through syslogd(8) and doveadm(1) could not find any log files, you can specify the directory where your syslogd writes its log files.
Yes. Used that one yesterday, and it couldn't find any log files, and it already looks in the right place (/var/log/), and I still have no idea where to look and configure, except for the config file snip that you felt I shouldn't have pasted in.
rainey:~# doveadm log find Looking for log files from /var/log Debug: Not found Info: Not found Warning: Not found Error: Not found Fatal: Not found
Could the culprit be the syslogd? Could the syslogd have gone AWOL during the debian upgrade? That's a point of investigation, at least...