On 2015-06-13 14:00, Steve Matzura wrote:
My /var/log/maillog was getting pretty big because of lots of testing
and re-configuring I've been doing lately with both Dovecot and
Postfix.
Logrotate is your friend for this task.
I figured just remove /var/log/maillog and it would be
re-created. It wasn't--not by Dovecot, not by Postfix. I had to
manually create a new one, put one character in it, save it, properly
secure it with chmod, and then Dovecot (and postfix) messages got
written to it. This can't possibly be the proper procedure to clear
maillog messages ... can it?
touch $logfile and chmod would have been enough, i think.
The other way would be to restart your syslog daemon to let it recreate
the missing logfile, thats what my logrotate does after rotating the
logfile.
- christian
