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jimmyjiang 01-11-2008 03:47 PM
write mail log to /var/log/maillog
 
hi,
I accidently delelte /var/log/maillog, after I recreate it, but postfix wouldn't write any mail log into it anymore, I restart postfix, no help, anyone know why?
thanks!
jimmy

Micro420 01-11-2008 09:50 PM
Who owns the /var/log/maillog file? Permissions?

Here's my settings for maillog when doing ls -laZ

Code:
-rw-------  root root system_u:object_r:var_log_t      maillog

jimmyjiang 01-14-2008 08:50 AM
[root@localhost ~]# ls -las /var/log/maillog
72 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63330 Jan 14 09:44 /var/log/maillog

but the problem is I deleted the origial maillog file, this one is I recreated myself. looks like postfix not really this file exits, so it didn't write any maillog in it. anyway to fix it?

Berhanie 01-15-2008 04:29 PM
restart syslog:
Code:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
or, whichever way your distro does it.

Micro420 01-15-2008 06:18 PM
Assuming that restarting the syslog or reboot does not work, and you have SElinux enabled, then you need to change the context of the file. That's why I did ls -laZ.


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