Re: HUP reqired after rotating mail.log on postfix?

> > I have an amavisd-new, spamassassin, postfix configuration and after
> > logroate rotates mail.log is sending an HUP singnal to postfix necessary?
> > is the " killall -HUP postfix" line necessary?
>
> The HUP tells postfix to reload its config file and will help it deal
> with the change in the presence of the mail.log file since it is being
> moved during the logrotate cron job and postfix may not normally catch
> that and create a new one on its own...

postfix, by default, doesn't know anything about mail.log.

Type in:

postconf syslog_name

postconf syslog_facility

postfix uses the system message logger (it doesn't handle logs files
itself).

For the facility, look at your syslogger configuration (like
/etc/syslog.conf).

Telling postfix to restart should not change anything and should not be
needed.

Jeremy C. Reed

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