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

Mail.log

Samantha Newman — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:20:58 GMT

Is it possible to disable logging of sent and received mail from certain users to the mail.log file?

Re: Mail.log

Frank Li — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:46:50 GMT

I think the answer maybe "NO" , you can " man syslogd" and it can give you some infomation .

You can't disable certain users' mail sent/receipt information , but you can disable all user mail infomation

Re: Mail.log

Shahul — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:53:49 GMT

Hi

Normally it is not possible (By using a script it may be possible). U can stop receiving mails for a user but that also will be logged in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log.

Shahul

Re: Mail.log

Ralf Hildebrandt — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 05:40:02 GMT

Yes, it is possible.
Not with default HP tools, though. If you replace syslogd by syslog-ng, then you can define regular expressions by which you can "sort" logentries to different logfiles. YOu'd normally specify /dev/null as logfile for stuff that's not to be logged.

Re: Mail.log

Samantha Newman — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:20:11 GMT

Thanks All!!! /dev/null was what I needed.