Mailscanner logging to syslog, only partial to mail.log, driving me nuts

Greg Deputy greg at blastzone.com
Sat Feb 7 01:38:29 GMT 2009


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Michael Mansour
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:10 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Mailscanner logging to syslog, only partial to mail.log,
driving
> me nuts
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> > From: Greg Deputy <greg at blastzone.com>
> > Subject: RE: Mailscanner logging to syslog, only partial to mail.log,
> driving me nuts
> > To: "'MailScanner discussion'" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > Received: Friday, 6 February, 2009, 12:44 AM
> > Yes, I've looked there, nothing seems unusual, and
> > I've not changed anything in there.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1. please don't top-post, it makes it difficult for people in the future
going
> through list archives and trying to follow a conversation thread.
> 
> 2. please post your syslog.conf. I've recently been doing a lot of syslog
work
> (out of necessity) to fix very similar issues, and it all turned out to be
the
> syslog config I had in place.
> 
> Hopefully I'll be able to help.
> 
> Michael.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
> > Behalf Of Kai
> > Schaetzl
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:31 AM
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: Re: Mailscanner logging to syslog, only partial to
> > mail.log,
> > driving me nuts
> >
> > Greg Deputy wrote on Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:50:51 -0800:
> >
> > > I've had a logging issue going on for a while with
> > MailScanner.  In my
> > > /var/log/mail.log file I'm only getting postfix
> > messages, where all the
> > > MailScanner messages seem to be going into
> > /var/log/syslog.  I've checked
> > > the mailscanner config, and the syslog facility set is
> > 'mail' and syslog
> > > seems to be setup and config'd correctly.  I used
> > to get all logging in
> > > mail.log as expected, but at some point is stopped.
> >
> > check your /etc/syslog.conf
> >
> > Kai
> >
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Thanks!  The syslog was attached to the message you replied to, here it is
below:

#  /etc/syslog.conf     Configuration file for syslogd.
#
#                       For more information see syslog.conf(5)
#                       manpage.

#
# First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
#

auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
#cron.*                         /var/log/cron.log
daemon.*                        -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.*                          -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.*                           -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.*                          -/var/log/mail.log
user.*                          -/var/log/user.log
uucp.*                          /var/log/uucp.log

#
# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.info                       -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn                       -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err                        /var/log/mail.err

# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit                       /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err                        /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice                     -/var/log/news/news.notice

#
# Some `catch-all' logfiles.
#
*.=debug;\
        auth,authpriv.none;\
        news.none;mail.none     -/var/log/debug
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
        auth,authpriv.none;\
        cron,daemon.none;\
        mail,news.none          -/var/log/messages

#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
*.emerg                         *

#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
#daemon,mail.*;\
#       news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
#       *.=debug;*.=info;\
#       *.=notice;*.=warn       /dev/tty8

# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
#
#    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
#
# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
#      busy site..
#
daemon.*;mail.*;\
        news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
        *.=debug;*.=info;\
        *.=notice;*.=warn       |/dev/xconsole



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