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* syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillogWolfgang Agnes
`* Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillogBob Eager
 `- Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillogWolfgang Agnes

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Subject: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
From: Wolfgang Agnes
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 22:21 UTC
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From: wagnes@jemoni.to (Wolfgang Agnes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:21:38 -0300
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I changed the timezone in my system and decided to start over with the
mail log. Without stopping sendmail, I removed /var/log/maillog. Then
I stopped it and started it. I did not see a new maillog being created.
I then restarted syslogd. And also restarted sendmail. Still no
maillog. I tried touching maillog and set the same permissions as the
old file, which I renamed. No messages written to maillog this way. I
looked at /var/log/messages to see if maybe mail messages were being
logged there---I saw some, but they were still in the previous timezone,
so they were not new. I'm puzzled. How wrong was what I did?

Subject: Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
From: Bob Eager
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 22:41 UTC
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From: news0009@eager.cx (Bob Eager)
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Subject: Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:21:38 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:

> I changed the timezone in my system and decided to start over with the
> mail log. Without stopping sendmail, I removed /var/log/maillog. Then
> I stopped it and started it. I did not see a new maillog being created.
> I then restarted syslogd. And also restarted sendmail. Still no
> maillog. I tried touching maillog and set the same permissions as the
> old file, which I renamed. No messages written to maillog this way. I
> looked at /var/log/messages to see if maybe mail messages were being
> logged there---I saw some, but they were still in the previous timezone,
> so they were not new. I'm puzzled. How wrong was what I did?

Best way to recreate any longfile is illustrated by this example for
maillog:

rm -f /var/log/maillog
newsyslog -C /var/log/maillog

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Subject: Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
From: Wolfgang Agnes
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 00:32 UTC
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From: wagnes@jemoni.to (Wolfgang Agnes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
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Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> writes:

> On Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:21:38 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:
>
>> I changed the timezone in my system and decided to start over with the
>> mail log. Without stopping sendmail, I removed /var/log/maillog. Then
>> I stopped it and started it. I did not see a new maillog being created.
>> I then restarted syslogd. And also restarted sendmail. Still no
>> maillog. I tried touching maillog and set the same permissions as the
>> old file, which I renamed. No messages written to maillog this way. I
>> looked at /var/log/messages to see if maybe mail messages were being
>> logged there---I saw some, but they were still in the previous timezone,
>> so they were not new. I'm puzzled. How wrong was what I did?
>
> Best way to recreate any longfile is illustrated by this example for
> maillog:
>
> rm -f /var/log/maillog
> newsyslog -C /var/log/maillog

Thanks! That did it. I had to issue the newsyslog command and then
restart syslogd. (As soon as I'm done with Sendmail, I'll read a book
on syslogd.)

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