[Dovecot] a few questions about my experience with alpha1

Glenn Leavell glenn at usg.edu
Sun Oct 16 16:08:55 EEST 2005


On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:36:46PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:47 -0400, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> > > Where are you logging to? Syslog or some file? Could you try if changing
> > > it to other one makes it work again? Also when this happens, could you
> > > run "truss -p <dovecot's pid>" and see if it's still doing write() calls
> > > to log?
> > 
> > I've been logging to a file.  The problem doesn't appear to be present when
> > logging through syslog.
> 
> Did you have info_log_path set? Looks like if log_path is set but
> info_log_path isn't, it breaks. Although with me it crashes instead of
> stopping writing.

No, I had not set info_log_path, and that was it.  After setting it,
logging continues to work as expected after a HUP.  Thanks!

Glenn

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