From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 00:00:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BB716A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DD5D43D2F for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmlewis@dslextreme.com) Received: (qmail 3107 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2004 00:00:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dslextreme.com) (66.51.199.92) by 192.168.8.93 with SMTP; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:22 +0000 Message-ID: <0a0a0a0a.20040910170022.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:00:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org User-Agent: DSL Extreme Webmail (www.dslextreme.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Dmesg and error logs. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:23 -0000 I am trying to troubleshoot an e-mail issue and was wondering if anyone can give me some info on errors and where to find them. Specifically: What log file does dmesg read from? Will dmesg give me any DNS errors or Postfix errors? If not what error log should I be looking at? Thanks in advanced for any help. Thank you, Joshua Lewis