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Subject: Re: having more than one process write to one log
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I will appreciate your advice. Is it possible and *safe* to allow two 
> different processes (dovecot and exim) to write to one log? Better not 
> do it? I would like to have both data in one log but... don't want to 
> cause problems. I don't think Windows would allow it. How about FBSD?
> 

isnt that the default? right now i see postfix, dovecot, amavisd, etc 
all log to /var/log/maillog

Eric