[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Bug #258387

[Alexander Wirt]

Harald Jenny schrieb am Tuesday, den 09. August 2011:

> Hi Henrique
> 
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:19:20AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, Harald Jenny wrote:
> > > it seems like this bug is open since over 7 years and as there is no activity
> > > since 2005 I would propose to finally close it or is this inappropriate?
> > 
> > I guess so.  Or we might actually get our $logfile stuff fixed and include
> > the logrotate script as an example.  We shouldn't default to
> > /var/lib/amavis/amavis.log, for example.
> 
> Hmmm I would guesss /var/log/amavis/amavis.log is the best location for an
> amavisd-new logfile - I would propose to add a note to README.Debian which
> states that the admin should create /var/log/amavis and chown it to the amavisd
> user, then copy over the example script to the logrotate directory and finally
> insert the options $DO_SYSLOG = 0; and $LOGFILE = "/var/log/amavis/amavis.log";
> into the amavisd-new config. It may also be possible and feasable to provide a
> simple snipplet which can accomplish the same thing when using rsyslog - if you
> think that one or both of these things makes sense I would prepare this for the
> next release (Alex can I savely commit such changes without intefering with
> your current work?).
Currently I am almost finished with the work for 2.7.0. What is your exact
plan? extending README.Debian and provide an example? But please don't change
the default (syslog to facility mail).

Alex