Re: Where can I change spamd logging?
On Saturday 13 March 2021 15:13:06 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > adding this "-s ~/gene/log/mail.log" inside the option "double quote
> > pair"> and issueing an /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart, didn't
> > bother it a bit.
> >
> > The way I read that manpage, it should have worked.
>
> First: do you actually have a subdirectory named 'gene' inside your
> home directory?
>
> Second: can you show the actual line of the config file, with your
> modification, and then the resulting service logs after the restart?
OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -s ~/log/mail.log"
> Third: can you explain what "didn't bother it a bit" means? What was
> the actual resulting behavior? What did it say in the logs?
>
Its not hitting the named file, but its not spamming syslog any more.
So I've no clue where all that is going
> If you mean something like "the logs were not written to
> ~/log/mail.log but instead were written to ____" then it might be
> because you used the wrong pathname in the config, so it ignored the
> config, and used its default pathname. Ideally the logs would include
> a warning telling you this, but not everything gives coherent warnings
> in all cases.
>
> Fourth: it's possible that tilde expansion is not performed by this
> service when reading this particular config option. Hopefully the
> man page will say whether it does or not -- but if it doesn't say,
> then you'll fall back to trial-and-error (put it in the configs,
> restart the service, check the logs, and repeat). Or, if you don't
> like trial-and-error documentation, you could just use a pathname that
> is guaranteed to work correctly, without requiring tilde expansion.
I'll give it a shot with a full path, and a unique name. And you were
right, its using that name as a log file now. Now, put it in logrotate.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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