dovecot - Feb 2009 - [Fwd: Re: dovecot logs to audit.log not to maillog]

Hello,

now I have done this:
under http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging?highlight=(logging)
Rotating Logs
is the following string
-----------------------
/bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true
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This string I have insert in
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog under the lines:
postrotate
         /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true
         /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true
So Dovecot will be restarted, after the log rotates.
I hope, the phenomenon is now solved.

greetings ralf


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot logs to audit.log not to maillog
Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:07:26 +0100
Von: Ralf Heidenreich <ralf at lx-work.de>
An: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>, dovecot at dovecot.org
Referenzen: <499035E7.8090506 at lx-work.de> 
<1234228183.6132.134.camel at timo-desktop>

Hello,

here is my dovecot.conf
------snip----------
log_path = /var/log/maillog
info_log_path = /var/log/maillog
-------snip-------------
Is it possible, than logrotate rotates the maillog, and dovecot wants to
  write to it, if the maillog is not available at the moment, dovecot
writes to audit.log?
I don't know.
Have you any ideas?

greetings ralf

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 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?
>