[Dovecot] Dovecot logs to syslog (other than MAIL)?

[Udo Rader]

Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2005, 17:08 +0100 schrieb Remy Zandwijk:
> >> I see in the config file where I can enable syslog, but then all logging
> >> goes to the MAIL facility.  I could find no reference to changing the
> >> facility:level for syslogging.  Is that implemented, or planned?
> 
> I have this in my 'How to build' guide:
> 
> 	By default, Dovecot does his logging to the 'LOG_MAIL' facility.
> 	Since this facility is allready being used by Sendmail, Dovecot
> 	needs to be instructed to use another facility.
> 
> 	To find all source files in which LOG_MAIL is used, start the
> 	command (in the root source tree):
> 
> 	        find . -type f | xargs -I{} egrep -l LOG_MAIL {}
> 
> 	This will produce a list of files, which contain 'LOG_MAIL'. Edit
> 	these files and change 'LOG_MAIL' to 'LOG_LOCAL1'.
> 
> So logging is done to the local1 facility.
> 
> 
> -Remy

I am doing something similar, but I am replacing the facilities on the
fly:

% find . -type f | xargs -I{} sed -i -e "s/LOG_MAIL/LOG_LOCAL7/g" {}

happy hacking

Udo Rader

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