Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:55:30 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail logs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103060853030.9344-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> In-Reply-To: <20010306173653.A58826@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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/var/log/sendmail.st contains overall statistics, and is viewed using 'mailstats' (man mailstats for more info). Textual logs of each mail transaction is stored in /var/log/maillogs, unless you've changed the syslog settings. Ken On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > This is an easy and quick one, I hope. > > Sendmail logs to /var/log/sendmail.st which apparently is binary. > Q1. How do I view the contents of this file? > Q2. Can I change this so that it logs to some ASCII text file, like exim > does? > > I've already opened www.sendmail.org, only I haven't gotten to the format > of the logs files. > I thought you were gonna suggest that to me ;-) > > Thanks mate! > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. > > I have never let my schooling interfere with my educations. > (contributed by Chris Johnston) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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