[Dovecot] BUG REPORT - Stops logging after sleep

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri May 11 15:46:58 EEST 2007


Bruce Bodger wrote:
> Thank you very much, Charles.  I have resorted to that workaround 
> (restarting dovecot) which does, indeed, work.  I just wanted to 
> document the situation since dovecot's behavior in this regard is unlike 
> other imap servers.

This thread mentioned only sending an HUP - or maybe even just a USR1 - 
signal - so, maybe restarting dovecot (which interrupts all processes) 
is not necessary?

Specifically:

> With 1.0-tests you could instead send HUP signal which makes Dovecot
> reopen the log files as well as re-reading the configuration files.
> Hmm. Looks like Apache uses USR1 signal as well for just log 
> reopening, I'll add that too.

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Best regards,

Charles


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