sendmail logs

Hey,

I forgot to put the meat in my answer.  The man page above explains it all.
Just set up a selector for mail.*, and send to its own file, like /var/adm/maillog.

Hope this is of some help.

Arvind,

Here are the steps how to change the sendmail logs.

1. make a copy of your /etc/syslog.conf

2. edit /etc/syslog.conf and change the following line.

mail.debug  ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)

to

mail.debug  ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/maillog, @loghost)

3. touch /var/log/maillog

4. stop syslogd with "/etc/init.d/syslog stop" command
5. start syslogd with "/etc/init.d/syslog start" command

send a mail and you should be able to see the log entries in /var/log/maillog file.


Try it our and this Definitely works.
Kidambi

Thnx, That I already Know

arvind,

Does your answer is  in response to my comment or billwcc's comment

kidambi

PLease clarify your question.            

1)  Do you want to record all of sendmail's log records in a file other than the default file, which is /var/log/syslog??

or,

2)  Do you want to know how to extract sendmail's log records from the /var/log/syslog file?

If what you want to do is #1, then the comment posted by Kidambi is what you need to do.  

If what you want to do is #2, then extract the messages using grep, or Perl.  

I don't know if this is what you're looking for.  If not, just post another comment.  

--frankf

thnx for ur helps -- My question solved -- After doing lot of R&D -- I'd solved my problem. changed made in syslog.conf only

Glad that you already found the answer but I think you should still give the points to Kidambi for his help.

wfang01 --  Kidambi solution is not working. I tried diffrent options in syslog

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How come no point refund -- bt the way thnx I think EE also Following MS way

Hi arvind, thanks for reviewing this question.

You didn't post your solution or point out the problems with the comments given, so my view was that billwcc and k.kidambi had given you the information you needed.

However, it is up to the Moderators to decide on how this question should be closed,  so I'm sure they'll take your comments into account.


For your other open questions, you could post a (0 point) question in Community Support to ask them to delete the question or save it & refund your points. If you do so, please post the link to the question AND post a message in the original question explaining what you are doing ;-)

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