-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi!
Could you please test the latest version of the logwatch package? It is supposed to really fix parsing dovecot log messages (particularly from mail.log). It is available from http://pkg-logwatch.alioth.debian.org/apt/pool/main/l/logwatch/logwatch_7.4.0+svn20120227rev85-1~4.gbp6ad10f_all.deb (sha1sum: 26699ce4af480dd9d5f46a80450a9db5fdd4cf6e) About details of dovecot packaging, please report a separate bug report against the dovecot package, as cloning and reassigning this bug would only make it unreadable for the dovecot maintainers. thanks WM On 2012-03-31 09:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I suffer this bug with > > Debian Squeeze (6.0.4) Dovecot Version: 1:1.2.15-7 Logwatch > Version: 7.3.6.cvs20090906-1squeeze1 > > I "fixed" it by simply configuring in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > log_path = /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path = > /var/log/dovecot.log > > This fixes the logwatch problem, but introduces another: lack of > automatic rotation. > > All of the patches mentioned here seem to simply ignore the > Dovecot entries in /var/log/mail.log. Logwatch doesn't tally > anything Dovecot related. "Everyone" apparently ignores their > Dovecot logs until there is a problem, then manually greps the > files anyway. Dovecot entries in general simply dirty/clog the > mail.log file, making it more difficult to grep precisely/only the > Postfix or Exim lines one is looking for when troubleshooting an > MTA problem. > > Due to these issues with the current default Dovecot logging > location, I humbly suggest an alternative fix of larger scope. The > Debian Dovecot maintainer(s) and maintainer(s) of the log rotation > scripts should, at best: > > 1. Change the Dovecot package default dovecot.conf from the syslog > mail facility to > > log_path = /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path = > /var/log/dovecot.log > > 2. Modify the default log rotation script to cover these new > files. > > > Or: > > Simply add log rotation of said alternative files if they exist and > drop a note in dovecot.conf stating that using mentioned path/files > will enable automatic rotation of the files. This gives > administrators a more realistic option to choose the alternate > logging location. I'd guess many avoid it because of the lack of > log rotation issue. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPdtEAAAoJEIy+IZx0V22By+QP/0mF36FERhCYHHX1EfUzxNfY sBoXPA0q1jrFUl3SNqMTAAYCoaCA3Sb7tyMVv3oiWBTTk9Lqe6fVW7/PhJc5Hdy2 IqAJa7DXSlpzEraEQT1YWEyGLvvpUTgayM/UWYmbhm9DwVk3oK8u/QVct7LrMHWQ wUWsMyL3qwxqQS4ooxlJyjhf+V1vgp86PSnGHpuD5jd+a0RCPOt5lnLrHVYAyNX+ 6EIC3RMV6UPBIIc7R9wnYR5f0QcONbYuQTD0DmEawV32S6O/pN+ALa9zSdtMssEv SVh5X7CZtFluZ7v8SkHvQ3CdHKcGCTRBfi1UfuJWBvVQa+VPxXI8r43wREduQZq2 cuNGWWsdOt3dyfw68uJbom4C4MqDz6Y7k0Y7gXxJLMFsgCRFYYmFEDvlu/5Yp0bA EQHHIw9FKHpXjqAt68Y4mpWsjV8NqAaWHos9x6JeN+mO+K/8E42mh6a+H9yd0m7l sWHoa818EXhdu6nN97oJQGZ4RE/sM2xFFENHPDGFewyJnVOzcKlVFy/yapVUprms mQ9J2fUhGtrh/6G//uMAu9KZO1QE/UZhOaJy4FRe2WuUnP2+XyF2+5WMxTljYFYx Xw62xZMvdtDRahyoqZIO0ftG7r+jUK/JWhc0s7IPzQatKwdimutzCyNr+sI90q2l g80loQ1u99dmaYgWHEt1 =7Pa1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
