On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:34:27AM -0500, Virginia Chism wrote:
> I received a failure notice concerning an email I did not send. I am
> attempting to track down how this happened and have hit a wall. When I do
> 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' I get current activity. If I do 'more
> /var/log/maillog' it goes all the way back to day one and I don't have time
> to slog through FOUR YEARS of maillog when what I need was a couple of days
> ago. Is there any way to select a certain number of items to view in this
> log?
>
This has nothing whatsoever to do with qmail. This is a basic sysadmin
question.
Hint -- grep is your friend. Look into the -A option if it exists on
your system.
man grep
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Greg White
