[Dovecot] Log rotation?

Beto Moreno pamrtj at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 09:02:20 EET 2009


  Hi people.

  I had read dovecot logging info, they say something about using log
rotation to help us rotate our log, with this setup:

# dovecot SIGUSR1: Re-opens the log files.
/var/log/dovecot*.log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  delaycompress
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || true
  endscript
}

  Well, my question is simple, Do we need to restart the service each
time logrotation runs?

  In my case, is wrong this?

var/log/dovecot*.log {
  weekly
  rotate 8
  notifempty
  missingok
  copytruncate
  create 600 root
  start 0
}

  I have 2 dovecot logs:

  dovecot-info.log
  dovecot.log

  dovecot-info.log is the biggest, 5MB by week, is to much? Do I have
to change our log rotation to "daily"?

  Centos 5.4 updated, dovecot 1.0.7-7.el5, thanks!!!


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