On 5.12.2012, at 17.41, Robert Blayzor wrote: > On Dec 5, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> Not currently. It would be possible to make it work, but it would require >> that Dovecot gets SIGHUPed every midnight to get the configuration reloaded. >> But you could already do that with logrotate, which I think is a better >> solution anyway. > > > Why SIGHUP? If it's an already open file handle you could just compare the > string expansion against the currently opened log/FH, and if different open a > new FH?
Sure, and it could do that with the other 1000 settings as well. I think I've seen maybe once in last 10 years the same feature request. Not really worth the extra code. > If not possible perhaps able to pipe logs to an external programs like > apache's rotatelogs ? In theory, yeah, I guess .. I'd probably make it a new setting, like log_executable = /usr/bin/rotatelogs. But I don't really have time to implement this myself right not.
