On Thu, 5 May 2016, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Another change to my Centos 7.2 system since my 'yum update' yesterday is > that /var/log/dovecot is no longer written to. > > If I do 'systemctl status dovecot' I can see log entries. How can I now do > the equiv or 'tail -f <logfile>' > > Also, why has this changed, and where is it documented? I'd take a stab at: journalctl -fu dovecot The full RHEL7 System Administrators Guide is well worth a read, but here's the bit you're probably after. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-Using_the_Journal.html Or maybe: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs jh