topic mail.log not found in Operating System - HP-UX

mail.log not found

Vishu — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:20:45 GMT

Hi Guys,

i have HP-ux 11.00. and after sending one mail with the mailx command, when i try to see the logs of it in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log, it prompt an error that file not exist. and i checked there is no such file named mail.log in /var/adm/syslog. i try to search the file in my server with find command, but no such file found. so, i created one with the command :-

touch mail.log

it has the permissions as root:sys. but again, the logs are not getting created in it. plwase suggest how can i get my mail.log file back.

Thanks

Re: mail.log not found

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:42:36 GMT

Hi:

Having created the 'mail.log' do:

# kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslog.pid)

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: mail.log not found

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:14:45 GMT

Hi (again) Vishu:

Did this solve your problem?

...JRF...

Re: mail.log not found

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:20:12 GMT

Shalom,

You would not get a mail.log file if sendmail was not running.

Check:
ps -ef | grep sendmail

netstat -an | grep ":25"

/etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs
# To see if sendmail is enabled.

SEP