Logging Problems

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 8 13:59:44 IST 2002


At 11:47 08/08/2002, you wrote:
>After upgrading to Mailscanner 3.22-10 and the latest set of Solaris 8
>patches, I'm getting no Mailscanner logging information.  (1) Syslog
>does not start with the '-t' option (2) I'm using Sendmail 8.12.4, not
>the one installed with Solaris.  In mailscanner.conf I kept logging set
>to mail and tried "HUP"ing syslogd...no luck.  I set logging to local4
>in mailscanner.conf and setup syslog to log local4, priority debug to
>/var/log/mscanlog and HUP'ed syslogd...no luck.

Read the man page for your syslogd and work out how to make it log messages
that arrive via UDP. In Solaris there is one option to remove from its
default command-line in the init.d script.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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