Re: [Dovecot] how to handle logging

2013-10-15 Thread Jost Krieger
On Mon Oct 14 13:41:40 2013, Andreas Schulze wrote: > I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged > data. > On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount > of pop3 sessions. > > The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to

Re: [Dovecot] how to handle logging

2013-10-14 Thread Anton Dollmaier
Hi, writing >1 TB per day sounds not wise. Use syslog-ng or similar to define log destinations to STDOUT / STDIN like multilog and omitting the "write to disk" part. E.g., using syslog-ng with the MongoDB target and a capped collection enables a similar circular buffer with the search t

Re: [Dovecot] how to handle logging

2013-10-14 Thread Andreas Schulze
Am 14.10.2013 12:45 schrieb Ben: > >The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog > >(circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html) > >That way I can have a look at the last activities to any time. > What's wrong with good old sysslog, or why don't you use Splunk or

Re: [Dovecot] how to handle logging

2013-10-14 Thread Ben
On 14/10/2013 12:41, Andreas Schulze wrote: Hello, I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged data. On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount of pop3 sessions. The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog (ci

[Dovecot] how to handle logging

2013-10-14 Thread Andreas Schulze
Hello, I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged data. On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount of pop3 sessions. The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog (circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/mul