Sendmail Logs

Kelly Hamlin fizz at BOMB.NET
Mon Jan 21 15:22:59 GMT 2002


on another note, when i did the updates with CPAN it installed 5.6.1 of
perl, is it possible it didnt install sys::syslog?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Hamlin" <fizz at BOMB.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Logs


> i beleive the problem lies some where other than syslog. Im able to do
> logger -p mail.info test and it writes fine. I think there is something
> between mailscanner and logger.pl which is what actually writes the logs
to
> syslog. I may be wronge, but im almost sure im right. How can i test
> logger.pl to make sure its writing or to maybe debug to see what the
hangup
> is?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly Hamlin" <fizz at BOMB.NET>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Sendmail Logs
>
>
> > ok, i was able to write to syslog with logger..
> > i see the same stuff that was being written to messages now in mail, but
> > still nothing reguarding spam or virus's. I keep sending my self a virus
> > from another machine, and mailscanner is cleaning the message, but still
> > nothing in the syslog/messages/mail logs.
> > and there is no packet filtering on this box right now. i checked
services
> > and 514/udp is setup.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nick Phillips" <nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: Sendmail Logs
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:47:18AM -0500, Kelly Hamlin wrote:
> > > > this might help..
> > > > i get errors when running logger.pl by itself. this may have
something
> > to do
> > > > with it
> > >
> > > Not logger.pl, "logger", which is a standard system command ("man
> > logger").
> > >
> > > > *.=info;*.=notice;*.=mail                       /usr/adm/messages
> > >
> > > OK, well this is wrong. "mail" is a facility, not a priority.
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > > *.=info;*.=notice                               /usr/adm/messages
> > > mail.*                                          /usr/adm/mail
> > >
> > >
> > > ...and restart syslogd.
> > > --
> > > Nick Phillips -- nwp at lemon-computing.com
> > > Be different: conform.
> > >
> >
>



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