[Dovecot] Log rotation?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 23:02 -0800, Beto Moreno wrote:
>   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?

If you've configured log_path in Dovecot, you need to run the postrotate
kill command above. It doesn't restart Dovecot, it just makes Dovecot
reopen the log file.

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