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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: empty log files (?!) Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:50:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <59n2b9$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59alui$ecf@news.ziplink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33059 mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > I lost an e-mail message and went to look in the /var/mail/maillog > for return address of the sender. To my surprise all of the > /var/mail/maillog* files were empty (of length zero). And so was > the latest /var/log/mesages ... Consult your /etc/syslog.conf file, and make sure your syslogd is running... Of course, make also sure your sendmail is running :) (or you have configured your sendmail replacement to use syslog). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)