maillog stops logging?

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Thu Jan 28 19:35:34 UTC 2016


Gao,

If you see this issue again, please tell me. I am really hoping that update you did contained the correction to the problem and it is not a problem with how Perl logs. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Jan 28, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Gao <gao at pztop.com> wrote:
> 
> I had this issue as well.
> 
> I am using CentOS 7.2  64bit and during the last month maillog stopped twice without any reason. When the maillog stops, message log also stopped. But other log (secure, fail2ban.,etc) keep working. I also have MailWatch on the same box and MailScanner still send records to MailWatch.
> 
> I tried to restart rsyslogd and MailScanner and that didn't bring the logging back. I have to reboot the server then everything back to normal.
> 
> Last time the maillog stopped is a week ago. I did a full "yum update" and reboot. So far the maillog is working well. Not sure what happened. I still have my finger crossed...
> 
> Gao
> 
> 
> 
> On 16-01-28 04:17 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> What OS are you using?
>> 
>> -
>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:16 AM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> Jerry Benton
>>>> www.mailborder.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> Jerry Benton
>>>>>> www.mailborder.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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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