From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 01:52:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E170816A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:52:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1434D43D77 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:52:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E495E88; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:52:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25326-05; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:51:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3185C21; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:51:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <437004BF.3080303@mac.com> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:51:59 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Murphy References: <436FE4B7.4030505@calarts.edu> <1B9F1530-2EBC-4CE6-BC7D-60831539CC51@mac.com> <436FFA95.4090801@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <436FFA95.4090801@calarts.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: debug.log questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:52:10 -0000 Sean Murphy wrote: > Charles Swiger wrote: [ ... ] > I just checked two 5.4 servers running sendmail that came with FreeBSD > they both have the /var/log/debug.log just there is no entires in the > debug.log on the second server. However it just mails the FreeBSD daily > reports to the other server. > > Can anyone else check there FreeBSD servers 5.4 running sendmail and > have this debug.log? > > -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 May 8 2005 debug.log > > same date as I made the server > > excerpt from the syslog.conf > > *.=debug /var/log/debug.log > > your right there is an entry for the debug in the syslog.conf > > however Im pretty sure this file is default FreeBSD It turns out that you are right for 5.4, although that change has since been backed out: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/syslog.conf ...in the most current version, if I'm following the branches correctly. In either event, it's fine to discard debug-priority logging, unless actually debugging something. -- -Chuck