Stephen Bosch wrote:
>
> PRIMER ON HOW TO GET A DECENT RESPONSE ON THE QMAIL LIST
> *for the lost and confused*
<snip>
Very nice primer.
>
> NOW - thought you were going to get away, huh? I have a question:
>
> First, I've done a bit of looking but it's not immediately obvious to me
> where qmail puts its logs -- in fact, I don't even know where to find the
> system logs. Would somebody kindly point me in the right direction?
I will assume you are talking about the main qmail programs, as opposed
to smtp or pop servers. If so, qmail sends it's log information to
standard out. So it depends on how you start qmail.
There are four possiblities:
1) you dump the output: 2>&1 > /dev/null
2) you send the output to syslog by using splogger.
syslog is controled by /etc/syslog.conf
it's a good chance the logs are going to either messages or maillog
The location depends on the operating system. linux puts them in
/var/log
3) you send the output to cyclog
4) you send the output to multilog
Ken Jones
www.inter7.com
