Feature Idea: MailScanner process name

Lewis Bergman lbergman at WTXS.NET
Thu Dec 8 18:51:23 GMT 2005


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Julian Field wrote:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> 
>> Steve Freegard wrote on         Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:36:47 +0000:
>>  
>>
>>> What do you think??
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I like that! BTW, on a somewhat related issue: I changed the logging 
>> facility of MailScanner, so that I get a separate log which consists 
>> of MailScanner actions only and no clutter in the normal mail log 
>> anymore. You can set the logging facility in MailScanner.conf, f.i. to 
>> "news" (which is unlikely for most systems to run on the same machine 
>> or at all) and then redirect news with /etc/syslogd.conf to 
>> /var/log/mailscanner.log or whatever you like. Don't forget a file for 
>> logrotate.d!
>>  
>>
> That's what the local levels are for. Set it to log to local0 rather 
> than re-using news.
> 
I have always thougt it would be nice if MailScaner came default using 
it's own log file.

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