On 3-Oct-2009, at 23:54, Sahil Tandon wrote:
As documented in the spamd(1) man page:
-s facility, --syslog=facility Specify the syslog facility
So, specifly a syslog FACILITY instead of a FILENAME. See syslogd
(8) and
syslog.conf(5) man pages for more.
man spamd(1) says:
facility is
interpreted as a file name to log to if it contains any
characters
except a-z and 0-9. "null" disables logging completely (used
internally).
So, setting it to spamd.log should log to that file since it contains
a '.'
This does not appear to work as the man page documents.
In fact, the examples lists:
spamd -s ./mail # log to file ./mail
It appears that the issue is that spamd gets confused when the logfile
is rotated
from man spamd(1):
If logging to a file is enabled and that log file is
rotated, the
spamd server must be restarted with a SIGHUP.
According to newsyslog.conf's comment section the syslogd process is
signalled when the logfile is rotated, but I don't see anything about
how to SIGHUP the spamd process when the logfile is rotated out from
under it.
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