On 8.11.2004, at 05:35, Chris L. Franklin wrote:

Okay in dovecot.conf I set the fallowing settings log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot Then I setup log rotation for that file (using logrotate). But after it does the rotation. Dovecot dies. Now I know why this happens. But should it ? To over come this I now have it set to stop dovecot and start dovecot after it's done dealing with the log file.

By "dies" you probably mean that it doesn't log to the new file? I can't think of how it would crash.

Anyway, with 0.99.x there probably isn't a better way to do this than restart. With 1.0-tests you could instead send HUP signal which makes Dovecot reopen the log files as well as re-reading the configuration files. Hmm. Looks like Apache uses USR1 signal as well for just log reopening, I'll add that too.