From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 5:21: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alligator.wananchi.com (alligator.wananchi.com [62.8.64.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BC037B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 05:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from root by alligator.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 159n9U-00016o-00; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:20:08 +0300 Received: from [209.198.248.2] (helo=siafu.iconnect.co.ke) by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14aKn2-000G4L-00 for wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:58:24 +0300 Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14aKjG-000Es8-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:54:30 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14aKlC-0006IE-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:56:30 +0300 Received: from adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.90.210] helo=fremont.bolingbroke.com) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14aKl5-0005uI-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:56:24 +0300 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 In-Reply-To: <20010306173653.A58826@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail logs Status: RO Lines: 36 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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