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mail.log in HP-UX

 
Amit Manna_6
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тАО06-20-2004 05:07 PM

тАО06-20-2004 05:07 PM

mail.log in HP-UX

Hi,

If we zip the mail.log file do we need to restart anything so that new mails come in??

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Michael Tully
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тАО06-20-2004 05:36 PM

тАО06-20-2004 05:36 PM

Re: mail.log in HP-UX

If you do anything to the mail.log file, no more logging will take place. You have to remember that the sendmail daemon has this file in memory.

If you want to zip a mail file, shutdown the sendmail daemon first.

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
# gzip /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
# touch /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
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Bharat Katkar
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тАО06-20-2004 05:38 PM

тАО06-20-2004 05:38 PM

Re: mail.log in HP-UX

No. No need to do anything, everything will work fine. Confirm mail.log seperatley exists. I would suggest after after zipping file you may even trim the original mail log file to get extra space.

# > mail.log

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