Hi Fabio,
Hello Stuart,
* 2008-05-02 15:41, Stuart Rowan wrote:
Please add a SIGNALS section the the dovecot manpage
I was trying to create a logrotate.d/dovecot file for my system (perhaps
this should be done by the package anyway?) and wanted to find out how to
get the daemon to reopen its logfiles. (I was previously just restarting
dovecot)
I'll add a SIGNALS section with the next upload, thanks for your
suggestion;
excellent news -- thanks.
the package doesn't ship a logrotate script because in the
default configuration dovecot doesn't use dedicated log files.
That makes perfect sense (which is why I didn't file it as a bug).
I don't know whether the below would be useful in README.Debian or
elsewhere but, as I've just done it, I thought I'd write it up and leave
that choice to you :-)
### snip ###
If you'd like to log directly to files rather than via syslog, the
following may help:
In /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf set the following variables:
log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log
Create the dovecot log directory and set the ownership and permissions
appropriately
mkdir /var/log/dovecot
chown dovecot.adm /var/log/dovecot
chmod 2755 /var/log/dovecot
# Save this as /etc/logrotate.d/dovecot
/var/log/dovecot/error.log /var/log/dovecot/info.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 60
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 dovecot adm
sharedscripts
postrotate
if [ -f /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ]; then
/bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid`
fi
endscript
}
### snip ###
Cheers,
Stu.
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