Re: mystery failure notice
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? tail -200 /var/log/maillog will get you the last 200 lines in the file. I usually do it as tail -200 /var/log/maillog | more and adjust the tail number-of-lines argument to get me to the date range that I want. -- ...Ru (a low-cost superhero) On, on! Blue skies. Think snow. 1740484I 998300172 076662 82968/A17215 045124P E286/184435 975-203608 11859 DS1160
Re: mystery failure notice
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 -- Greg White
mystery failure notice
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?
