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Re: strange(?) /etc/syslog.conf



On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:11:10PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I changed sendmail to exim in my sid system a few days ago
> and found that syslogd complained like
> 
>     there is no such file /var/log/mail/mail.log
> 
> (and also with mail.{err,info,warn})

I don't know if it explains your problem but by default exim does not log
via syslog. On our system all those files are empty. The exim logs are in
/var/log/exim.

Use: eximstats < /var/log/exim/mainlog  to get some neat stats about your
mail.

HTH,

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