On 18.1.2011, at 11.41, Nick Lunt wrote:

How about putting the something similar to the following in /etc/logrotate.conf (on redhat/centos)

/var/log/dovecot.log { weekly minsize 1M create 0664 root postfix rotate 4 }

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.)

On 18.1.2011, at 11.59, Frank Bonnet wrote:

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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 be OK in logrotate.conf ?

kill -HUP cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid

It'll rotate the logs, but it'll also re-read the config. I'd use -USR1 instead.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:53:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss@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.

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

Am 18.01.2011 20:50, schrieb Mark Alan:

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:53:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

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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@seibercom.net

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