Stephen Harris schrieb: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:06:06PM +0200, Thomas Antony wrote: >> After /var/log/maillog has rotated, postfix doesn't log anything to the >> new log file till i restart syslog. It doesn't matter if i reload or >> restart postfix. > > You don't need to restart syslog, merely send it a SIGHUP > >> Is this a normal behaviour with this log file and if yes why? > > Yes. > > Postfix doesn't write to the file directly, it sends its messages to > syslog which writes according to the mail.* entries in syslog.conf > > Check the existing syslog logrotate entry. > Thank you! Thomas