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Re: maillog


Cloudmaster said:
> I bzzip2-d my /var/log/mail log, and "echo > /var/log/mail" ed a new
> logfile, but now sendmail's no longer logging.  the file's owned by
> root.root, and it's mode 640, but it's not geting new stuff put in to it,
> even though there's still mail coming in and going out like normal.  Any
> ideas as to why sendmail's no longer getting logged?

Restart (kill -HUP) syslogd.

> --Danny, who finally got NIS up

I hope you have a good firewall.  :-)

Steve
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