December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
10h 4m
English
The sendmail command logs mail system activity through the syslogd daemon. The syslogd daemon must be configured and running for logging to occur. Specifically, the /etc/syslog.conf file may contain the uncommented line:
mail.debug /var/spool/mqueue/log
If it does not, use an editor to make this change; be certain that the path name is correct. If you change the /etc/syslog.conf file while the syslogd daemon is running, refresh the syslogd daemon by entering the command:
refresh -s syslogd
If the /var/spool/mqueue/log file does not exist, you must create it by entering the command:
touch /var/spool/mqueue/log
Because information is continually appended to the end of the log file, it ...
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