[arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

Ray Kohler ataraxia937 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 10:22:21 EST 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' which is the default location
> Postfix MTA writes everything it does to. I was sadly in that file
> using Vim and deleted the last line. I didn't restore the removed line
> and simply saved the file. I noticed now that the Postfix daemon no
> longer writes anything to the log file since I edited it. No
> permissions have changed at all. It's still in the same location and
> owned by the same UID/GID.
>
> Code:
>
> -rw-r----- 1 root log 189 Mar  3 08:37 mail.log
>
> I can see that Postfix is however logging everything under
> '/var/log/everything.log'
>
> Anyone know how to fix this? I am worried I broke Postfix but mail is
> still flowing and I get no errors at all from Postfix. It's just not
> writing to 'mail.log' any longer.

I don't think Postfix writes its own log files, but uses syslog to do
it. You should probably be debugging syslog-ng instead. A simple
SIGHUP might fix it.


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