Hi,

installing a machine from backups, I initially tend to move "pristine"
conf files/dirs away, and replace them with those from backups. I missed
restoring /etc/dovecot/, so dovecot told me through syslog the following
config file was missing: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf; that amount of
times:
| 98M	/var/log/syslog
| 249M	/var/log/syslog.1

I think it would have been OK to just die the first time, instead of
repeatedly trying to reopen it (rate-limit kicked in on the syslog side).

Mraw,
KiBi.