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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: mmoran@veronet.net
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Subject: Re: Empty Maillogs???
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 mmoran@veronet.net wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed the maillogs on my server are empty - no messages nothing just
> empty few days ago. I suspected I might have added my upstream provider's
> IP addresses (as secondary DNS server just in case of my primary DNS one go
> down) to my resolv.conf file to cause this, isn't it? I removed the IP
> addresses that I added and re-start it, still maillogs are empty.
> 
> Before this change, I was able to review my maillogs - now I unable to, all
> I can see is empty screen :( I've looked all of FBSD mailing lists with
> this - no luck :(
> 
> Here's the info of maillog after 'ls -l' command:
> 
> hawk# ls -l maillog
> -rw-r--r--  1  root  bin  0  Jul 14  02:00 maillog
>                          ^^^ 

Your permissions should be 664 (read/write user/group, read world).

Also try restarting syslogd.  Whenever you remove the logs  you *must*
restart syslogd so it'll reattach to the new file.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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