On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:15:07 +0300, you wrote: >Look into logrotate, and turn off your debugging stuff.
I actually did look at logrotate, but since I'm nobody's big understander of what's in there, I didn't change anything until I learn more about what's in logrotate.d/syslog and other things. >On 13 Jun 2015 15:02, "Steve Matzura" <[email protected]> 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. 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? >>
