maillog logging level

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Apr 18 22:21:34 IST 2005


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What priority levels are logged in maillog is governed by your
/etc/syslog.conf, so start there.
Also you need to edit the ClamAV config files so it knows where to find
your Clam signature database files for the autoupdating.

Billy Pumphrey wrote:

>I am using CentOS 4
>MailScanner 4.40.11
>Spamassassin    3.0.1
>
>In the past before I made my new server, maillog contained entries of all of
>the mail that went through.  Now it just contains a few lines such as:
>
>Apr 17 05:10:35 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed Apr
>17 05:10:35 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for generic
>Apr 17 06:01:01 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to 600
>seco nds Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found clamav
>installed Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate
>for clamav Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1085]: ClamAV update
>warning:
>ERROR:
>Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf.
>Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1085]: ClamAV update warning:
>ERROR:
>Please edit the example config file /etc/clamd.conf.
>Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1085]: ClamAV update warning:
>ERROR:
>Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS
>ClamAV-autoupdate[1085]: ClamAV updater failed Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS
>update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed Apr 17 06:09:50 WoodenMS
>update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for generic Apr 17 07:01:01
>WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to 600 seco nds Apr 17
>07:10:01 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed Apr 17
>07:10:01 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav Apr
>17 07:10:01 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1248]: ClamAV update warning:
>ERROR:
>Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf.
>Apr 17 07:10:01 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1248]: ClamAV update warning:
>ERROR:
>Please edit the example config file /etc/clamd.conf.
>Apr 17 07:10:01 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[1248]: ClamAV update warning:
>ERROR:
>Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf Apr 17 07:10:01 WoodenMS
>ClamAV-autoupdate[1248]: ClamAV updater failed Apr 17 07:10:01 WoodenMS
>update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed Apr 17 07:10:01 WoodenMS
>update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for generic Apr 17 08:01:01
>WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to 600 seco Nds
>
>
>
>Despite the ClamAV autoupdate error, that is a problem that I didn't see
>before.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>>Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: maillog logging level
>>
>>MailScanner has logged using syslog as far back as I can remember...
>>
>>What is the problem, and what OS are you using?
>>
>>Billy Pumphrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I do not quite understand the new way of MailScanner loggin using the
>>>
>>>
>>syslog
>>
>>
>>>thing.  I searched the archives and found that I need to put a -r in
>>>
>>>
>>there
>>
>>
>>>somewhere but that is not enough information for me.  Can someone
>>>help me out with getting the mailscanner logging back to "old school"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>--
>>Julian Field
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>>Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: maillog logging level
>>
>>MailScanner has logged using syslog as far back as I can remember...
>>
>>What is the problem, and what OS are you using?
>>
>>Billy Pumphrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I do not quite understand the new way of MailScanner loggin using the
>>>
>>>
>>syslog
>>
>>
>>>thing.  I searched the archives and found that I need to put a -r in
>>>
>>>
>>there
>>
>>
>>>somewhere but that is not enough information for me.  Can someone
>>>help me out with getting the mailscanner logging back to "old school"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
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