FreeBSD syslog troubles

[Kelly Hamlin]

nope, just making sure you have a mail.* entry in there.
i have never run bsd so im out of ideas :)
sorry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Martin" <todd at DECAGON.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD syslog troubles


> Thanks, Kelly, for you attempts at solving my problem.
>
> I already have:
>         mail.*                  /var/log/maillog
>
> Are you suggesting to change this entry or add a duplicate entry for
testing?
>
> ~Todd
>
> >im not sure if you have a syslog.conf in your etc, but try adding a line
> >like this
> >mail.*                                          /var/log/mail/maillog
> >and then restart mailscanner, it should write something to
> >/var/log/mail/maillog, you may have to creat that mail dir in your
/var/log
> >dir
> >hope this helps
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Todd Martin" <todd at DECAGON.COM>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:47 PM
> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD syslog troubles
> >
> >
> >>  ummm...I can't tell you what version. The -v option is a FreeBSD
> >>  extension for verbose (and there is no -V). Manually starting syslogd
> >>  doesn't report the version. The man pages aren't helping me either.
> >>
> >>  This is a FreeBSD 4.5 box -- the latest.
> >>
> >>  For what it's worth, spamassassin is writing to the maillog...
> >>
> >>  ~Todd
> >>
> >>  >what version of syslogd? do syslogd -v
> >>  >
> >>  >----- Original Message -----
> >>  >From: "Todd Martin" <todd at DECAGON.COM>
> >>  >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >>  >Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:33 AM
> >>  >Subject: FreeBSD syslog troubles
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  >>  Hi again,
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  I'm not seeing any mailscanner messages in my maillog. I've sent
> >>  >>  myself a few dummy files that correctly trip the "extension not
> >>  >>  allowed" filter.
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  I've read the mailscanner FAQ, but the item about syslog seems
> >>  >>  specific to Linux. Syslogd on FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a -r
> >>  >>  option. The man pages for syslogd, Sys::Syslog, and syslog.conf
> >>  >>  aren't helping. What simple thing am I missing?
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  ~Todd
> >>  >>
> >>  >
> >>
> >
>