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

Harald Jenny harald at a-little-linux-box.at
Tue Aug 9 18:08:10 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:55:47PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> 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).

My plans would be to add a section to README.Debian and provide an example
logrotate script (and if somebody cares an example rsyslog config snipplet) -
there is no intention to change the default (sorry if this was not clear).

> 
> Alex

Harald



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