Hello,

now I have done this: under http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging?highlight=(logging) Rotating Logs is the following string

/bin/kill -USR1 cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null 2> /dev/null || true

This string I have insert in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog under the lines: postrotate /bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2> /dev/null || true /bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2> /dev/null || true So Dovecot will be restarted, after the log rotates. I hope, the phenomenon is now solved.

greetings ralf

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot logs to audit.log not to maillog Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:07:26 +0100 Von: Ralf Heidenreich ralf@lx-work.de An: Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi, dovecot@dovecot.org Referenzen: 499035E7.8090506@lx-work.de 1234228183.6132.134.camel@timo-desktop

Hello,

here is my dovecot.conf ------snip---------- log_path = /var/log/maillog info_log_path = /var/log/maillog -------snip------------- Is it possible, than logrotate rotates the maillog, and dovecot wants to write to it, if the maillog is not available at the moment, dovecot writes to audit.log? I don't know. Have you any ideas?

greetings ralf

Timo Sirainen schrieb:

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:55 +0100, Ralf Heidenreich wrote:

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Hello,

I have a curious phenomenon. Dovecot logs normally to /var/log/maillog. If I restart my server, dovecot loggs to /var/log/audit/audit.log. If I restart dovecot, dovecot loggs to /var/log/maillog again. And I think, wenn logrotate is restarting, dovecot logs to audit.log. But I don't know why. Any Ideas?

By default Dovecot logs to syslog. Maybe your syslog configuration changes after boot?