Logging Problems

[Julian Field]

At 14:44 08/08/2002, you wrote:
>Yes.. that's the -t switch.  From the Solaris 8 syslogd man page:
>         -t    Disable the syslogd UPD port to turn  off  logging  of
>                remote messages.
>Unfortunately, the syslog daemon that starts from /etc/init.d
>does not start with the -t option.  Therefore that's not the
>problem.

In which case it must be your /etc/syslog.conf file. Make sure you are
logging "mail" at "info" and above. Use the "logger" command (if you have
one) to test it out.


>Mike
>
>Michael Dahlberg
>Systems Integrator
>Bucknell University
>dahlberg at bucknell.edu
>
>Julian Field [mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] wrote:
> > 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.
> > --
> > 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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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