Re: mail log question
On 2025-09-12 08:05:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The other thing you might need to know is that you can get different
> levels of verbosity when you run the journalctl command as root vs.
> non-root. When you "only" got the Starting and Finished messages,
> I'm betting you ran the journalctl command as a non-root user. Try it
> as root.
Obviously, there are no differencies between root and non-root.
It would have been silly to require to be root to get all the
postfix related messages with "journalctl -u postfix", while
"journalctl -u postfix\*" already give them without needing to
be root.
> If you want all of the "mail-related" messages to be in a single
> file, install rsyslog and use the traditional human-readable log files
> under /var/log.
It is already installed on my mail server, and /var/log is what
I actually use in general on this machine. I'm tempted to install
rsyslog on my desktop machines too.
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