On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:50 +0100, RutgerM wrote:

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#!/bin/sh unset LOG_TO_MASTER export USE_SYSLOG=1 exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

But this logs the user that runs the script into the imap server and when I terminate this terminal I get a "Disconnected" message for the local linux user, which I don't need of course.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. It should log everything the exact same way, except directly to syslog.

This is not happening indeed. I get a IMAP screen where I can do LIST commands and so on. This happens when I execute imap.

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Is there a way to get to what I want ? I want to log my IMAP statics for every day and I need to "disconnect" my imap clients for it in some way to receive the Disconnected message and count from there.

Actually I just realized there is a simple way:

killall imap

This solution also works great indeed.

But I still would like to know why the exec way doesn't work.