From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 00:43:04 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 3D17416A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81E043D4C for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:43:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:45:35 -0500 Message-ID: <41424A11.7000003@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:42:57 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael johnson References: <0a0a0a0a.20040910170022.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <8D4A48D2-0386-11D9-B04C-000A958C81C6@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <8D4A48D2-0386-11D9-B04C-000A958C81C6@ahze.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Sep 2004 00:45:36.0586 (UTC) FILETIME=[A70062A0:01C49798] cc: jmlewis@dslextreme.com cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dmesg and error logs. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 00:43:04 -0000 michael johnson wrote: > 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 And, if it's so serious that the MTA isn't running, you might find something in /var/log/messages; or, written to the console. If you are running the box "headless" or from a remote location, it might be good to take a look at the note in /etc/syslog.conf regarding the writing of console output to a file (it's in a comment somewhere in there....) HTH2, Kevin Kinsey