MailScanner and syslog

[Julian Field]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Quentin Campbell wrote:
> Have recently installed MailScanner 3.12-5 on a new system and notice
> that I no longer see "mailscanner" messages (eg. Scanning 2 messages,
> ...) in the sendmail logs. This installation is a Linux (RedHat 7.2)
> system.
>
> Is this a change in MailScanner since 3.10-3? I cannot see why the
> syslog.conf file on Linux may be losing the "mailscanner" messages as
> sendmail records are being logged as I require.

The most likely cause is the lack of the "-r" flag in the syslogd
command-line. Check item 1 in the Installation FAQ for more info.
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Jules
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk