Cyrus logging, /var/log/imapd.log

[Simon Matter]

> Since upgrading Cyrus imapd to 2.2.3, there have been no entries in

Logging has changed in 2.2. The logging facility can now be configured at
compile time and at least my rpms do it with '--with-syslogfacility=MAIL'.
That said you may have a closer look at how your cyrus got compiled.

Simon

> /var/log/imapd.log. I did a little Googling, and learned that syslog is
> actually doing the logging. syslog is running, the ps command shows:
>
> root      1565     1  0 Apr10 ?        00:21:33 syslogd -m 0
>
> In /etc/syslog.conf, I have the following pertinent lines:
>
> mail.*              	/var/log/maillog
> local6.debug        	/var/log/imapd.log
>
> /var/log/imapd.conf is rw for root, the same as the other log files. I
> can't
> find any errors related to syslog in /var/log/messages. I tried removing
> the
> empty file, and restarting syslog. This creates a new imapd.log file, but
> nothing gets written to it.
>
> If I comment out the local6.debug line, then the imap log entries get
> logged
> to /var/log/maillog/ This is OK, but I'd rather have a separate logfile
> for
> imap. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Doug
>
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