Chris Green wrote:
While I'm about it why am I getting identical mail.log and mail.info
files created in /var/log on the Pi?
It's not inherently Pi-specific.
The root cause is some wise-guy upstream package maintainer who has
(mis?)configured (r)syslog to output multiple log files for different
priority messages sent to the MAIL facilty by default. Whether this is
actually useful is entirely a matter of opinion.
One of the first things I do in a new Debian install is to revert this
to the standard single file. Personally I have yet to find a use case
where this split would be useful, notwithstanding the packager's
comments in the rsyslog configuration.
-kgd
