Log level setting in Sendmail to use sendmail.log.pl and get results

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Oct 7 12:16:11 IST 2002


At 09:51 07/10/2002, you wrote:
>It's version 3.13-2 , I know it's old but it's working and I don't want to
>bust it at the mo.
>
>If you do need to run syslogd with a -r which file needs to be altered ?

Depending on your O/S, one of
         /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog or syslogd
         /etc/init.d/syslog or syslogd


>Thanks again
>Brian
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:44 AM
>Subject: Re: Log level setting in Sendmail to use sendmail.log.pl and get
>results
>
>
> > What version of MailScanner are you running?  It seems like the older
>versions required syslogd to be run with a -r parameter.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Brian Chivers
> > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:11 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Log level setting in Sendmail to use sendmail.log.pl and get
> > results
> >
> >
> > As you may have seen I have asked for help getting the sendmail.log.pl
> > script working. I think I can seem to workout is how the script detects
>the
> > virus's in the log file.
> >
> > >From my limited knowledge of perl it look like the script looks for
> > `/mailscanner/` but I have looked through the file manually and I can't
>find
> > this.
> >
> > What I'd like to know is what should the log level be set to in the
>sendmail
> > option's ? currently ours is set to 9 and as I didn't set this up I'm not
> > sure what all the options are.
> >
> > Can anyone help, what level does everyone else have it set to ?
> >
> > Brian Chivers
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > believed to be clean.
> >
> > --
> > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > believed to be clean.
> >
>
>
>--
>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>believed to be clean.

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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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