JanKr, > since a few days I have a problem with amavisd-new. > amavis.log rotate midnight but the new amavis.log have wrong > permissions (640). > in the past the new logfiles never change the permission...
On amavisd restart (if logging to a file), it opens/creates a file as root and then changes its ownership as follows: $loghandle->open($logfile, O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_WRONLY, 0640) [...] chown($uid, -1, $logfile); This hasn't changes in a while (and I must say I don't like opening a log file as root, but is useful to have a log open even before daemonizing and changing uid). > no email can deliver and when I restart amavis: > Starting amavisd: Failed to open log file /var/log/amavis.log: Permission > denied at /usr/sbin/amavisd-new line 1822. > (failed). when I change the log to 777 it works... > /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd: > savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 14 $LOG >/dev/null > so here savelog give 640... I could change it to 777 -.- Don't know how this log rotation works, and I do not care for it much. Logging directly to a file is inefficient (lock/position/write/flush/unlock for every write), and is problematic with log rotation, which must be coordinated with restarting amavisd. The only recommended way of logging is through syslog. There you have full control on what and where to log, is efficient, and there is a standard way of doing log rotation which applications need not be aware of. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
