topic Re: mail log in Operating System - HP-UX

mail log

j773303 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:09:03 GMT

Is it possible to know users were sent mail?
Any log on this for each user?

Re: mail log

Joaquin Gil de Vergara — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:13:18 GMT

try it changing the loglevel in the sendmail.cf file

Re: mail log

j773303 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:18:21 GMT

The mail was sent by mail and mailx.

Re: mail log

Massimo Bianchi — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:18:39 GMT

Hi, all is logged in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Massimo

Re: mail log

twang — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:42:25 GMT

# tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Re: mail log

Michael Tully — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:44:24 GMT

There is not a log for each individual user, all mail entries are logged into /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

There are a few specially written email packages that you could install if you wanted something further. I am sure sendmail could cater for this, but you are welcome to wade through sendmail mire. Have a look at the offerings from this link.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/

Re: mail log

Michael Tully — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:54:48 GMT

Further to this the incoming mail itself will be sent by default to /var/mail/~username

Re: mail log

Rory R Hammond — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:13:54 GMT

syslogd logs mail messages according to the levels and specifications described in /etc/syslog.conf

You need to look at /etc/syslog.conf
to verify were your mail "stuff" is logged.
on my systems mail.debug is logged in:
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log

I have seen some use /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
My AIX box used /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog before
I changed it.
On my linux box messages are logged in /var/log/maillog.

It all depends on how you setup /etc/syslog.conf

Rory

Re: mail log

someone_4 — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:43:23 GMT

hi

the mtail command also tails the mail.log file for you.

mtail
gives you the last 20 lines

mtail 50

gives you the last 50 lines

Richard