Hi,

I have iRedMail-0.6.1 running on CentOS 5.5 and I am also seeing a maillog rotating issue.

Every night maillog is rotating and the new maillog is staying at 0 size.  If I restart the rsyslog daemon it does start to log until the next time it rotates.

Thanks Zhang,

I am having the same issue described above. My postrotate section is as follows:
   
postrotate
        reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript

What exactly are you suggesting it be changed to in order to correct this issue? Thanks in advance!

FWIW, the fix I listed above worked for me so far so good, the mail.log was active after the rotation.

Thank you for posting this, so if I understand your file now looks like this?:

postrotate
        service rsyslog restart
        reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript

Is that correct?

Thank you so much in advance!

Thanks so much!

Bump.

This is a  real issue. Every Sunday dovecot stops logging.

Hi everybody !
Had the same issue on Debian, quite annoying.

However, as udi111 points out, the problem here is not to restart rsyslogd, but to restart dovecot at every logrotate. This is because dovecot is configured to log to a logfile, and not to syslog or rsyslogd or syslog-ng.
This is further complicated by the fact that in iredmail, the old logfile gets compressed with bzip2 as soon as the rotation is executed, so dovecot tries to log to a compressed file, and actually logs nowhere.

Summing up, if you have your dovecot configured to log to a file (which means in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf you have a line such as:

log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log

Then you need to restart dovecot, and not rsyslogd, in the logrotate file.

Since I prefer the next newer log to be left uncompressed, and I don´t really care to compress logfiles with bzip2, here is my modified /etc/logrotate.d/dovecot file:

/var/log/dovecot.log {
    compress
    # delaycompress will leave the next newest log uncompressed
    delaycompress
    weekly
    rotate 10
    create 0600 vmail vmail
    missingok

    # Use bzip2 for compress.
    #compresscmd /bin/bzip2
    #uncompresscmd /bin/bunzip2
    #compressoptions -9
    #compressext .bz2

    postrotate
        # Since dovecot is configured to log directly to a file, we
        # need to restart Dovecot here, not syslog-ng
        #invoke-rc.d syslog-ng reload > /dev/null
      /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

iredmail developers, please fix this in the next release

Best regards