Cyrus logging, /var/log/imapd.log

[Marco Colombo]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Doug Koobs wrote:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using 2.2.3 and had no trouble with syslogd, I use 
> > local6.* instead of
> > local6.debug. 
> > By the way local0 through local7 are made available by syslog 
> > to applications
> > wishing to have a separate log file (man syslog.conf should 
> > tell you more).
> > 
> > If local6.* doesn't change anything you should try to restart 
> > syslogd using
> > /etc/init.d/syslog restart.
> > 
> > 
> > Hope this help.
> > françois
> 
> Francois,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I changed the lcal6.debug to local.* and restarted
> syslog, but still nothing got written to imapd.log. I read the man page for
> syslog, and it explains what the localx entries are for, but not where they
> are defined. Anyone know where it is determined that local6 is logging for
> cyrus?

Well, you may want to check if your syslog is doing its job correctly first:

$ logger -i -p local6.info "this is just a test"

the message should appear in the right file. If not, you've got a 
problem with your syslog configuration.

There is no 'definition' of what goes into which localx, or any other
facility. Applications ask for a certain message to be logged with
a certain facility and a certain priority tagged to it. That's all.

As for where local6 is defined in cyrus:

$ cd cyrus-imapd-2.2.3  # this is the first tree i stepped into
$ ./configure --help | fgrep syslog
  --with-syslogfacility=FACILITY set the syslog facility to use (default LOCAL6)

It's a compile time option you can set with configure.

In some previous releases, LOCAL6 was simply hardcoded if I remember well.


> 
> Doug
> 
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