On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:06:46PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2021 at 18:27:47, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > And, while I'm asking anyway, why no /var/log/mail* since 2013 either?
Problem has been found: no system logging demon. > > /var/log/mail* would be created by sendmail (and perhaps others), but the > default for Debian (and therefore Devuan) is Exim, which logs to > /var/log/exim4/* > > So, I'm wondering whether either: > > a) you were previously using sendmail, which generated the log files you see, > and then changed (perhaps unknowingly) to Exim, which logs somewhere else I'm using postfix, which it appears uses the system loggin demon for its log. > > or > > b) this disk had content from some previous system which last got used in May > 2013, and then some subsequent installation or upgrade, without wiping the > disk first, has resulted in the system you now have, which isn't logging to > those same files? That could be. Perhaps an upgrade in 2013 removed the logging demon (which I just now installed again.) -- hendrik > > What are the ownership and permissions on: > > /var > /var/log ? > > > Antony. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
