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Re: System Logs



Do not know what mailer have you installed but on my system the MTA have its 
own logs (/var/log/exim/).


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>
> To: debys <debys@ramat-negev.org.il>
> Cc: Iglu Mailing list <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: System Logs
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
> >
> > > From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > try
> > > > > > chkconfig --list syslog
> > > > >
> > > > > syslog 0:off1:off  2:on  3:on  4:on  5:on  6:off
> > > >
> > > > Now: is it running?
> > > >
> > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
> > >
> > >       syslog dead but pid file exists
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If not: try starting it:
> > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
> > >
> > >       Starting system logger :     [FAILED]
> > >       Starting kernel logger:
> >
> > So apply standard debugging techniques:
> >
> > man syslogd shows that there is a -d switch for debug.
> >
> > See what parameters are used in the init.d script. In my machine it is:
> >   daemon syslogd -m 0
> > daemon is a function used in redhat's init.d scripts, and is basically a
> > wrapper for running the command after it.
> >
> > so try running:
> >
> > syslogd -m 0
> >
> > or maybe:
> >
> > syslog -m 0 -d
> >
> > and see if you get some more information.
> 
>     I did not succeed in submiting syslog with the -d  parameter, but
> somehow I tried to
>     start again syslog by - /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
>     and it succeed.
> 
>     After I wrote:         /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
>     and got                syslogd   running
>                                 klogd  running
> 
>     but still - nothing  is written to log files.
> 
>     Thank you,
>                             Deby
> 
> 
> >
> > --
> > Tzafrir Cohen
> > mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
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