syslog: spamassasin and vira info goes to messages file rest goes to maillog file.

[Youn Gonzales]

try changing mailscanners facility to local1 or some other local value and
direct it to the other log file to see if that works..

Youn Gonzales
System Administrator
Comptia A+, Network+, INET+,
Cisco CCNA/CCDA Certified Technician
Microsoft Certified Professional

"sabbe dhamma anatta"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Schulz" <kim at SCHULZ.DK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: syslog: spamassasin and vira info goes to messages file rest
goes to maillog file.


> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:47:11 +0100
> Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> > Read "man syslog.conf". You probably have something else containing
> > mail stuff (or *.info or something like that) going to
> > /var/log/messages. This is nothing to do with MailScanner, it's your
> > syslog setup.
>
> I have read the syslog.conf man serval times, and it says that mail is
> the one for mail info. the one that catches mailscanners log is *.info
> but that shouldnt happen because I have mail.none after. like:
>
> *.info;mail.none                /var/log/messages
>
> mail.*                          /var/log/mail
>
> according to the man-pages, this should be wrong and it works with all
> mailprograms (like sendmail, exim, qpopper etc) except for mailscanner.
> Mailscanner shows it startup info in maillog and then it starts putting
> all it's info into the messages file insted.
> This makes it impossible to make statistics and stuff like that.
>