Re: nothing in maillog - ReadList.com

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nothing in maillog
\ Simon Jones (31 May 2007)
. \ nick (31 May 2007)
. \ nick (31 May 2007)
. . \ Simon Jones (31 May 2007)
. . . \ Simon Jones (31 May 2007)
. \ Alexandros Fragkiadakis (31 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: nothing in maillog
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Simon Jones
Date:	31 May 2007

hooraah! I removed syslog.conf and re created it, restarted syslogd and hey
presto postfix is talking to me again! thanks lads!

SMJ

On 31/05/07, Simon Jones <simonmjones> wrote:
>
> Hi, here's my syslog.conf
>
> # Log all the mail messages in one place.
> mail.*
> -/var/log/mail/maillog_simon
>
> i restarted syslogd and still nuttin from postfix :(
>
>
> On 31/05/07, nick <nick> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Simon Jones <simonmjones>:
> >
> > > Hi, I've just installed a new RHEL 5 system with postfix. everything
> > works
> > > great except that nothing appears in /var/log/maillog - not a
> > sausage! the
> > > server is running and processing mail, i can see processes in top and
> > users
> > > have reported no abnormal problems.
> > >
> > > I have syslog.conf configured: mail* -/var/log/maillog
> > >
> > > what else do i need to check? I changed the log name to mail*
> > > -/var/log/maillog_simon and restarted syslogd - it created the file
> > but
> > > still nothing in there from postfix.
> > >
> > > any help is appreciated,
> > >
> > > SMJ
> > >
> >
> >
> > Is it a typo or did you mean mail* instead of mail.* ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>