Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 23:40:16 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Glenn McCalley <techlist@bnetmd.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: messages and maillog have stopped logging? Message-ID: <20010507234016.N50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <009101c0d73c$36d4cfe0$7201a8c0@mtcm1.md.home.com>; from techlist@bnetmd.net on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:24:47PM -0400 References: <009101c0d73c$36d4cfe0$7201a8c0@mtcm1.md.home.com>
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:24:47PM -0400, Glenn McCalley wrote: > So. 2400hrs rolled around as it does every day, and newsyslog closed > /var/log/maillog and /var/log/messages as it does every day with "logfile > rolled over" as the last entry. > > The new logs were opened with another "logfile rolled over" entry. > > Nothing was logged in the new log files, and at 2400hrs newsyslog wrote maybe there wasn't nothing to be logged? don't forget that you can always try if your syslog.conf acts the way you want it with "logger -p faculty.priority message", like "logger -p mail.crit blaat". That one should appear in your /var/log/maillog if your syslog.conf is working okay. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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