Re: Log Question

[Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>]

s. keeling wrote:
> Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>:
>   
> >  I just upgraded the following packages this morning from testing:
> >
> >  [UPGRADE] console-data 2:1.02-2 -> 2:1.03-1
> >  [UPGRADE] dictionaries-common 0.85.2 -> 0.86.2
> >  [UPGRADE] razor 2.810-2 -> 1:2.84-1
> >
> >  I am using MIMEDefang with Sendmail to do mail filtering.  Here is a 
> >  copy of one of those logs from MIMEDefang:
> >
> >  Oct 28 04:15:02 apple mimedefang.pl[12585]: greylist: white; 0; 
> >  82.118.211.*; dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org; *@stikman.com;
> >
> >  Those are put into my /var/log/maillog log file.
> >
> >  After the upgrade, the above log line looks like this:
> >
> >  Oct 28 09:44:18 apple check[5889]: greylist: white; 0; 70.103.162.*; 
> >  bounce-debian-user=jeff=stikman.com@lists.debian.org; *@stikman.com;
> >
> >  And, the lines are now put in /var/log/messages.
> >
> >  If you notice it says the process is now check instead of mimedefang.pl 
> >  sending the output.  How come that changed?  I have restarted mimedefang 
> >  and sysklogd, but no change.
> >     
>
> I would guess the install changed syslog.conf.  Did you accept the
> maintainer's version, or keep your own?
>
>   

No.  I have gone through that file many times and nothing has changed in
it.  Here is the output of that file:

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
#*.info;cron.none;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none     /var/log/messages
*.info;cron.none;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none      /var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
#authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure
authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog

# Log cron stuff
cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg                                                 *

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot

#  Log all news items
news.*                                                  /var/log/news

#  Log all mail notices
mail.notice
/var/log/mailerror

Jeff