Re: Mail logs missing in wheezy

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:19:30 -0700, David Guntner
>>
>> What things are logged where is controlled by the /etc/rsyslog.conf
>> file.  "man rsyslog.conf" for more information about the layout of the
>> file.
>
> Here's an extract from the rsyslog.conf file:
>
> auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
> *.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
> #cron.*                         /var/log/cron.log
> daemon.*                        -/var/log/daemon.log
> kern.*                          -/var/log/kern.log
> lpr.*                           -/var/log/lpr.log
> mail.*                          -/var/log/mail.log
> user.*                          -/var/log/user.log
>
> I can't find it mentioned in the man page for rsyslog.cong what the minus
> signs mean in front of the file names.

It means "don't sync every file write."