Hello!

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"S. Muthu Kumar" <ksmutthu@gmail.com> schrieb am 06.11.15 um 21:49:32 Uhr:

log_path here means the logging channel path. It refers to the logger daemon to use to generate logs.

Most of the linux/unix based applications prefer to use common system logger to take care of writing the logs preferably under /var/log/ as there are other structures(like rotating those logs periodically).

do refer to man pages of syslog.conf or rsyslog.conf and see how you can generate individual log files for devecot via (r)syslog daemon while you have delegated dovecot logging responsibility to (r)syslog.

I must admit I don't understand what is going on. I am running rsyslog on two servers and on both servers version 2.2.13 of dovecot.

On the first I set log_path = /var/log/dovecot1 with -rw------- 1 root root 1093533 6. Nov 17:24 dovecot1 in /var/log and everthing is fine.

If I do this on the newly set up server, dovecot does not start.

Ofcourse I could set it up to log to syslog and prepare rsyslog.conf but why is it so?

Regards

Andreas