From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 8:56:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A525737B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f26GtVu12648; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:55:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:55:30 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail logs In-Reply-To: <20010306173653.A58826@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /var/log/sendmail.st contains overall statistics, and is viewed using 'mailstats' (man mailstats for more info). Textual logs of each mail transaction is stored in /var/log/maillogs, unless you've changed the syslog settings. Ken On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > This is an easy and quick one, I hope. > > Sendmail logs to /var/log/sendmail.st which apparently is binary. > Q1. How do I view the contents of this file? > Q2. Can I change this so that it logs to some ASCII text file, like exim > does? > > I've already opened www.sendmail.org, only I haven't gotten to the format > of the logs files. > I thought you were gonna suggest that to me ;-) > > Thanks mate! > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. > > I have never let my schooling interfere with my educations. > (contributed by Chris Johnston) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message