Hello, I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged data. On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount of pop3 sessions. The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog (circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html) That way I can have a look at the last activities to any time. I like to have that in dovecot too. But since dovecot uses syslog it's not possible to adopt 1:1 Any ideas? Thanks -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P252 DATEV eG 90329 N?rnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 N?rnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht N?rnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. Robert Mayr J?rg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen
On 14/10/2013 12:41, Andreas Schulze wrote:> Hello, > > I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged data. > On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount of pop3 sessions. > > The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog > (circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html) > That way I can have a look at the last activities to any time. > > I like to have that in dovecot too. But since dovecot uses syslog > it's not possible to adopt 1:1 > > Any ideas? > Thanks > >What's wrong with good old sysslog, or why don't you use Splunk or some other proper grown-up logging tool ? Relying on STDOUT sounds like a recipe for disaster.
On Mon Oct 14 13:41:40 2013, Andreas Schulze wrote:> I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged data. > On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount of pop3 sessions. > > The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog > (circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html) > That way I can have a look at the last activities to any time. > > I like to have that in dovecot too. But since dovecot uses syslog > it's not possible to adopt 1:1I'm a bit late, but what's wrong with log_path = /dev/stderr We have been using multilog for dovecot for a long time. One problem, though: delivery logs will probably land somewhere else than server logs. Yours Jost Krieger -- | Jost.Krieger+sig at ruhr-uni-bochum.de Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine at RUB Comp. Center | | Sincere words are not sweet, sweet words are not sincere. | | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |