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On Sep 10, 2004, at 8:00 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote:

> 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

/var/run/dmesg.boot is what it reads from

/var/log/dmesg.* will also have info

> Will dmesg give me any DNS errors or Postfix errors?

Depends on what the error is.

> If not what error log should I be looking at?

/var/log/maillog will have the info you probably need =)

Cheers,
  Michael