Do not know what mailer have you installed but on my system the MTA have its
own logs (/var/log/exim/).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Iglu Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: System Logs
>
>
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
> >
> > > From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > try
> > > > > > chkconfig --list syslog
> > > > >
> > > > > syslog 0:off1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> > > >
> > > > Now: is it running?
> > > >
> > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
> > >
> > > syslog dead but pid file exists
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If not: try starting it:
> > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
> > >
> > > Starting system logger : [FAILED]
> > > Starting kernel logger:
> >
> > So apply standard debugging techniques:
> >
> > man syslogd shows that there is a -d switch for debug.
> >
> > See what parameters are used in the init.d script. In my machine it is:
> > daemon syslogd -m 0
> > daemon is a function used in redhat's init.d scripts, and is basically a
> > wrapper for running the command after it.
> >
> > so try running:
> >
> > syslogd -m 0
> >
> > or maybe:
> >
> > syslog -m 0 -d
> >
> > and see if you get some more information.
>
> I did not succeed in submiting syslog with the -d parameter, but
> somehow I tried to
> start again syslog by - /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
> and it succeed.
>
> After I wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
> and got syslogd running
> klogd running
>
> but still - nothing is written to log files.
>
> Thank you,
> Deby
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Tzafrir Cohen
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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