Re: where is mail.log
On Thursday 28 November 2024 07:15:48 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 08:07:20 +0800, Bitfox wrote:
> > After I installed postifx by apt, I can't find the path to mail.log.
> >
> > the log file in /var/log doesn't exist.
> >
> > do you know where is my mail.log now?
>
> Install the rsyslog package also. This will give you traditional,
> human-readable log files in /var/log/.
>
> Without that package, all of your logs live in systemd's journal.
> You should be able to find them there, with some effort, but many
> people (including me) prefer to have text files in /var/log/.
>
>
What's gained by them having changed this? (I wonder that about a lot of stuff.)
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