Hi, On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:00:33PM +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > I've decided to rotate the dovecot logs automatically on my freebsd > 10.4 server using the system's newsyslog feature. I started with > logfile.info putting the line > > /var/log/dovecot/logfile.info 600 31 * @T16 ZCU > /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 30 > > which should send a SIGUSER to the master process, which it seems to > do for I see in the log file: > > master: Warning: Sent SIGKILL to 1 log processes > master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=69871 uid=0 code=kill) > > though the log process doesn't die. > > What did I do wrong?
Remove "U" from the flags: U indicates that the file specified by path_to_pid_cmd_file will contain the ID for a process group instead of a process. And sometimes "B" (don't insert info message about log rotation) is useful too. --Andreas -- ! Andreas Jobs Network Operation Center ! ! Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum ! ! One Day I Will Find This Peer Guy and Then I Will Reset HIS Connection !
