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Agree on importance of logs, when you need them....you REALLY need them!
Otherwise don't look at them and just let them rotate from syslog or
newsyslog, whichever applies... I don't use postfix, but same
purpose/use/need with others.

At 12:29 AM 3.7.2002 +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
>On 06/03/02 12:37 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
>> The postfix port defaults to logging all it's activity when 
>> users sends mail. The logged messages go to mail.* which is 
>> the FBSD core sendmail program log file. 
>make replace. You don't want sendmail and postfix sitting together. 
>
>> How do I change postfix to log to local5.*? 
>syslog_facility = local5
> 
>> How do I tell postfix to stop logging all the users activate? 
>I don't think you want to do that. Trust me, you really really don't
>want that.
>Use pflogsumm.pl to get a summary of those logs.
>
>Devdas Bhagat
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