> On 30 May 2018, at 19.08, SATOH Fumiyasu <fumi...@osstech.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2018 00:44:58 +0900,
> A. Schulze wrote:
>> When running multiple instances of dovecot on the same host (or running
>> multiple docker container),
>> it is hard to distinguish logs from different processes: the syslog entries
>> are all prefixed with the same identifier "dovecot"
>> It is hardcoded here:
>> https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/lib-master/master-service.c#L420
>>
>> Would it make sense to use the already implemented instance-name as syslog
>> ident?
>> How do others solve that problem?
>
> I have a patchset to implement that. Please see the attachment.
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] master: Do not prepend "dovecot-" to a process name
Why not? I'd think it would be useful to always find dovecot processes.
> - openlog(ident, options, facility);
> + static char *syslog_ident = NULL;
> +
> + i_free(syslog_ident);
> + syslog_ident = i_strdup(ident);
> +
> + openlog(syslog_ident, options, facility);
I don't think this is necessary?
> + env_put(t_strconcat("INSTANCE_NAME=", set->instance_name,
> NULL));
Also not needed.
But yeah, I guess in general it would make sense to use instance_name for
syslog ident.
