Hi,
I have a relatively new installation with LDAP and Postfix, running
smoothly on CentOS but it logs dovecot messages both in
/var/log/messages and in /var/log/dovecot.log.
I have configured it to log in /var/log/dovecot.log (with
syslog_facility: local1 and a respective line in syslog.conf, see below)
but it also logs in /var/log/messages. As a result, I would expect it to
only log into /var/log/dovecot.log.
Can someone suggest why this happens and help me stop logging dovecot
messages in /var/log/messages ? Could it be because the following
directive (in syslog.conf) does not capture dovecot messages to exclude
them?
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
/var/log/messages
Could I use something like (in syslog.conf):
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;dovecot.none
/var/log/messages
to capture dovecot messages and *exclude* them from /var/log/messages ?
I am not sure if syslog understands "dovecot.none". Please explain how
this could be done.
Here is the configuration (I've changed real domain name with example.com):
# dovecot --version
1.2.11
# dovecot -n
# 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.centos.plus x86_64 CentOS release 5.5
(Final)
syslog_facility: local1
ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/CA/certs/cert-xxx.pem
ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/CA/certs/cert-xxx.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/CA/private/key-xxx.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10
mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10
mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle
netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@example.com
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
username_format: %Lu
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: ldap
args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/vmail/%u
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
plugin:
quota: maildir:User quota
quota_rule: *:storage=307200
quota_warning: storage=75%% /opt/mail.sh 75 %u
# grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
hosts = ldap.example.com
tls = yes
base = ou=people, dc=example, dc=com
scope = subtree
ldap_version = 3
auth_bind = yes
pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password
auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
pass_filter = (uid=%u)
And the content of /etc/syslog.conf
# cat /etc/syslog.conf
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
/var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*
-/var/log/maillog
# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *
# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*
/var/log/boot.log
# Dovecot messages will be using local1
local1.*
/var/log/dovecot.log
#local2.* /var/log/php.log
local3.*
/var/log/sympa.log
Thanks,
Nick Milas
Greece
P.S. I sent this message earlier (a few hours ago), but I didn't see it
coming in the dovecot list, so I've decided to send it again.
