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

mail.log

David Crowe — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:46:49 GMT

Is there a way to create a new mail.log file? Ours has grown to the point where it is too large to open with vi. I tried copying it to a new file and then deleting the old one but when I stopped and started sendmail a new one was not created. I also tried creating a new file with the same name but it didn't appear that sendmail was writing to the log.

Re: mail.log

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:55:26 GMT

David:

The proper way to nullify an inuse file is this:

# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

You can do this while the sendmail daemon is running.

...JRF...

Re: mail.log

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:03:43 GMT

# > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
or
#touch /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Re: mail.log

David Crowe — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:13:46 GMT

Does this just stop logging to the mail.log or does it create a new mail.log?

Re: mail.log

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:19:56 GMT

No stop logging to the mail.log,you can create a new mail.log.

Re: mail.log

Pedro Sousa — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:22:08 GMT

Nope, it does not stop logging to mail.log, but it cleans what you had inside the file until that point in time.

Re: mail.log

David Crowe — Fri, 11 May 2001 16:47:13 GMT

Mail transactions are no longer being put into my mail.log file. Is there a simple way to correct this?

Re: mail.log

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 11 May 2001 17:05:14 GMT

Hi David:

If you removed /var/adm/syslog/mail.log instead of redirecting /dev/null to it, then restart sendmail:

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

...JRF...

Re: mail.log

Jim Moffitt_1 — Fri, 11 May 2001 17:06:13 GMT

You could stop and start sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

and also give your syslog daemon a restart:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

Hope that helps.

Jim

Re: mail.log

David Crowe — Fri, 11 May 2001 17:16:57 GMT

I have already tried stopping and starting sendmail but it did not fix the problem. I will try stopping the syslog daemon and see if that does the trick.

Re: mail.log

Plamen SIMEONOV — Wed, 16 May 2001 14:54:58 GMT

Hi,
Logging in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log is manipulated from SYSLOG daemon.
Would you try with:
1. mv /var/adm/syslog/mail.log /var/adm/syslog/mail.log.old
2. touch /var/adm/syslog/mail.log (may be a chmod command will be good)
3. kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`