[Dovecot] dovecot logs to audit.log not to maillog

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 10 03:09:43 EET 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:55 +0100, Ralf Heidenreich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a curious phenomenon.
> Dovecot logs normally to /var/log/maillog.
> If I restart my server, dovecot loggs to /var/log/audit/audit.log.
> If I restart dovecot, dovecot loggs to /var/log/maillog again.
> And I think, wenn logrotate is restarting, dovecot logs to audit.log.
> But I don't know why.
> Any Ideas?

By default Dovecot logs to syslog. Maybe your syslog configuration
changes after boot?

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