maillog stops logging?

Walt Thiessen wt at dld2000.com
Thu Jan 28 12:16:36 UTC 2016


My server at /etc/init.d/ doesn't have a file named rsyslog.

Here's an ls -l for /etc/init.d/


drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   4096 Jan 27 21:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root   4096 Jan 27 21:11 ../
-rwxr--r--.  1 root wheel  1151 Feb 25  2015 bandmin*
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  12972 Oct 10 00:07 cpfunctions
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   2502 Dec 16 11:06 dovecot*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   1067 Jan 27 21:11 filelimits*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  13948 Sep 16 07:51 functions
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   2989 Sep 16 07:51 netconsole*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   6630 Sep 16 07:51 network*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   1160 Nov 19 23:49 README


On 1/28/2016 7:09 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart
> 
> maybe?
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> Jerry Benton
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>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com> wrote:
>>
>> Correct
>>
>> On 1/28/2016 7:05 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>> Both the MTA and MailScanner are not logging to it?
>>>
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>>> Jerry Benton
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>>>
>>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:04 AM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For some unknown reason, my /var/log/maillog stopped recording entries
>>>> two days ago. There's plenty of available storage on the server ... only
>>>> about 9% has been used.
>>>>
>>>> Exim_mainlog continues to record entries, but not maillog.
>>>>
>>>> MailScanner continues to scan emails. I can see the results of it in
>>>> delivered emails' message source. X-org-name-MailScanner-Information
>>>> shows up in the message source.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some way to turn maillog off and on that I should check?
>>>>
>>>> Walt Thiessen
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