On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 08:08:24AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On 6 February 2012 17:49, Dennis Guhl <d...@dguhl.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:33:01PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I have a new Scientific Linux 6.1 mail server (dovecot -n below) and > >> am seeing the following in the logs, with no idea what is happening: > >> > >> --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------ > >> > >> > >> Dovecot was killed, and not restarted afterwards. > > > > You shut dovecot down and does not restart it. > > > It appears to be doing things without my intervention. Despite the > reports that it kept shutting down, Dovecot continued to serve > messages throughout the day.
The messages logwatch shows appeared at some time within the analysed period and are not necessarily in a time sorted order. Btw do not rely on any summary of log files but look into the log yourself. [..] > You mean the version of logwatch is too old? I'm beginning to wonder Yes, the current version is 7.4.0 from march 2011 (http://www.logwatch.org). > whether running an Enterprise version is such a good idea after all. I don't know Scientific Linux but I use Debian stable on all my server and I'm very happy with it. Nonetheless do I manually upgrade some packages wich added needed features or are maintained by upstream. It is crucial to know and understand the philosophy behind a distribution and to decide if this works for you and if you can live with the caveats resulting. Dennis