Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-22 Thread chaouche yacine
Michael, You should probably just chmod 600 your dovecot.log file. Here's mine (debian 8): root@messagerie-secours[CHROOT][10.10.10.19] ~ # ls /var/log/dovecot.log -rw--- 1 root root 8.3M Mar 22 16:40 /var/log/dovecot.log root@messagerie-secours[CHROOT][10.10.10.19] ~ # And here are t

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Please don't top post. On 18-03-2017 22:56, Michael Heuberger wrote: > Thank you. And what user/group/file perms does your dovecot.log file have? > Here I have drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 06:25 /var/log/dovecot/ And the files are -rw--- 1 root root 4110 Mar 19 07:57 info.log -rw

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Christian Kivalo
Am 19. März 2017 07:21:20 MEZ schrieb Michael Heuberger : >Well, I'd rather to have dovecot log alone in one log file. Let dovecot log to syslog and set syslog_facility = local5 and configure your syslog daemon to write log data for that facility to a separate file. No need to mess with permi

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Michael Heuberger
Well, I'd rather to have dovecot log alone in one log file. My initial question is that user/group and file permissions to use?? On 19/03/17 15:40, Richard wrote: > >> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 15:28:35 +1300 >> From: Michael Heuberger >> >> On 19/03/17 15:12, Richard wrote: Date: Sunda

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 15:28:35 +1300 > From: Michael Heuberger > > On 19/03/17 15:12, Richard wrote: >> >>> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 14:56:01 +1300 >>> From: Michael Heuberger >>> >>> On 19/03/17 13:43, Richard wrote: > Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 13:32:57 +1300 > From:

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Michael Heuberger
Well, I tried the same but it didn't work. Setting my dovecot.log to 600 with root:root is breaking my mail system. I am then unable to receive and open emails. Had to apply an ugly hack /var/log/dovecot*.log { su syslog syslog create 666 syslog syslog rotate 10 .

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 14:56:01 +1300 > From: Michael Heuberger > > On 19/03/17 13:43, Richard wrote: >> >>> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 13:32:57 +1300 >>> From: Michael Heuberger >>> >>> Hello guys >>> >>> Having headaches here how to make logrotation for dovecot log >>> files work

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Michael Heuberger
Thank you. And what user/group/file perms does your dovecot.log file have? - Michael On 19/03/17 13:43, Richard wrote: > >> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 13:32:57 +1300 >> From: Michael Heuberger >> >> Hello guys >> >> Having headaches here how to make logrotation for dovecot log files >> work.

Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 13:32:57 +1300 > From: Michael Heuberger > > Hello guys > > Having headaches here how to make logrotation for dovecot log files > work. Having permission issues: > > michael.heuberger@xxx /e/l/daily ❯❯❯ sudo logrotate -fv > dovecot.daily > ⏎ > reading config fil

Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log

2017-03-18 Thread Michael Heuberger
Hello guys Having headaches here how to make logrotation for dovecot log files work. Having permission issues: michael.heuberger@xxx /e/l/daily ❯❯❯ sudo logrotate -fv dovecot.daily