Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:41:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: mmoran@veronet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Empty Maillogs??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161441010.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980714213501.00848a00@veronet.net>
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 mmoran@veronet.net wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed the maillogs on my server are empty - no messages nothing just > empty few days ago. I suspected I might have added my upstream provider's > IP addresses (as secondary DNS server just in case of my primary DNS one go > down) to my resolv.conf file to cause this, isn't it? I removed the IP > addresses that I added and re-start it, still maillogs are empty. > > Before this change, I was able to review my maillogs - now I unable to, all > I can see is empty screen :( I've looked all of FBSD mailing lists with > this - no luck :( > > Here's the info of maillog after 'ls -l' command: > > hawk# ls -l maillog > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Jul 14 02:00 maillog > ^^^ Your permissions should be 664 (read/write user/group, read world). Also try restarting syslogd. Whenever you remove the logs you *must* restart syslogd so it'll reattach to the new file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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