From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 04:46:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9353F1065670 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 04:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org (mho-02-bos.mailhop.org [63.208.196.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2368FC21 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 04:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from adsl-70-142-211-69.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net ([70.142.211.69] helo=mail.mikestammer.com) by mho-02-bos.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JhHLk-000Evp-D7; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:46:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F27B868; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:46:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 70.142.211.69 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19HfB87Z25Y487IxnHqraAWIEd+ZDtyMEE= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NjYt1sFDKLoH; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:46:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (c-71-195-240-209.hsd1.ut.comcast.net [71.195.240.209]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7E0E8B84A; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:46:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <47F4612D.40903@mikestammer.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:46:37 -0600 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ruel Luchavez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: View the Email Logs 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: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:46:57 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On April 3, 2008 10:30:01 AM +0800 Ruel Luchavez > wrote: > >> Hello.. >> >> I have here an existing email server running in FreeBSD, >> how could I view the logs of email yestrday? what would be the command? >> and usually where is directory for the email log? >> >> ..im new in freebsd.. >> >> Your help is geatly needed..thanks > > /var/log/maillog is the usual location > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" old mail logs would be compressed to files like maillog.0.bz2 and so on. you can use bzcat to view them. multitail is a nice program to view and/or watch log files should you need something like that