Sendmail queries

[iman_1]

Hulo,

I have a previous system admin set the sendmail log collection in on of the directories.

How can I disable or reactivate the log collection ?

How did he do this ?

In this file there are some good number of messages collected with [ ID XXXXX mail.warning ] Does this depict any errors ?

Where can I see any sendmail errors if any ( not collected in this mail file) ?

Ciao

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

Look into your syslog.conf file. You will see something like:

# cat /etc/syslog.conf
# @(#)B.11.11_LR
#
# syslogd configuration file.
#
# See syslogd(1M) for information about the format of this file.
#
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert /dev/console
*.alert root
*.emerg *


the line that starts with word mail tells you where your mail log is, if configured.

HTH

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It is all controlled in syslog.conf

That is where the changes were made.

Hopefully the admin left a backup file, otherwise pick a default file off another system. I can even send you one if you have no alternatives.

after changes are complete restart the syslog daemon.

SEP

[Ganesan R]

Hi Iman,

The default location of sendmail log is /var/adm/syslog/mail.log unless otherwise you have changed it in /etc/syslog.conf

For sendmail log collection, you can schedule a simple script in cron to backup a current file everyday and keep defined number of days. Check root user crontab to find if such kind of script is scheduled.

[iman_1]

thankyou all

[iman_1]

ciao