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On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail that was included with FreeBSD.
>
> There is a debug.log that I have questions about.
> Is the debug.log just for mail troubleshooting?
> Can I turn it off or reduce the amount of logging?

No such file exists by default under FreeBSD.  Certainly you can turn  
it off.
See /etc/syslog.conf, you want to comment out the line mentioning  
debug.log.

And then kill and restart syslogd...

-- 
-Chuck