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ferguson at brvmlaw

May 3, 2002, 3:42 AM

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Clear log

Good morning,

What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
like exim -?? something

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:51 AM
To: Stanier, Alan M
Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stanier, Alan M wrote:

> 2002-05-03 11:06:22 recipients from [64.156.187.126] refused
> (failed to find host name from IP address)

conduct a manual test (-bh), that might reveal more information.

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ferguson at brvmlaw

May 3, 2002, 3:54 AM

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RE: Clear log [In reply to]

OK Thank you all for your quick replies.
What I get from all the replies is that if I simply delete the log file exim
will create another.
Correct?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:04 AM
To: Ferguson, Michael
Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Clear log

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ferguson, Michael wrote:

no. top-posters' log files just keep growing forever.

*g*

> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: Stanier, Alan M
> Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
>
> > 2002-05-03 11:06:22 recipients from [64.156.187.126] refused
> > (failed to find host name from IP address)
>
> conduct a manual test (-bh), that might reveal more information.
>
>
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ferguson at brvmlaw

May 3, 2002, 3:57 AM

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RE: Clear log [In reply to]

Volker, Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: volker [mailto:v.augustin [at] multiartstudio]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:06 AM
To: Ferguson, Michael
Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Clear log

you mean emptying your maillog-file?

delete your maillog, touch a new one and killHUP your syslogdaemon :)

you could do a

rm -f /var/log/maillog && \
touch /var/log/maillog && \
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslogd restart

this might help ...

volker

"Ferguson, Michael" wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: Stanier, Alan M
> Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
>
> > 2002-05-03 11:06:22 recipients from [64.156.187.126] refused
> > (failed to find host name from IP address)
>
> conduct a manual test (-bh), that might reveal more information.
>
> --
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>
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yann at kierun

May 3, 2002, 4:01 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

Quoth Ferguson, Michael on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:42:47 -0400
> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something

<evil_mail_admin_from_hell>
as root: cd / && rm -rf
</evil_mail_admin_from_hell>

... Right... DO NOT TYPE THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can either delete the log file, or use something like excylog that
will cycles the logfiles for you. There are other mechanisms to cycle
logs depending on what falvor of unix you are running.

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ollie at uk

May 3, 2002, 4:03 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:42:47AM -0400, Ferguson, Michael wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something

mv /path/to/maillog /path/to/maillog.old
touch /path/to/maillog

Ollie

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drees at rangebroadband

May 3, 2002, 4:03 AM

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RE: Clear log [In reply to]

> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something

rm -f /path/to/mainlog

ice at extreme

May 3, 2002, 4:04 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ferguson, Michael wrote:

no. top-posters' log files just keep growing forever.

*g*

> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: Stanier, Alan M
> Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
>
> > 2002-05-03 11:06:22 recipients from [64.156.187.126] refused
> > (failed to find host name from IP address)
>
> conduct a manual test (-bh), that might reveal more information.
>
>
> --
> [-]
>
>
> --
>
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim
> details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
>
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>
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>
>

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v.augustin at multiartstudio

May 3, 2002, 4:05 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

you mean emptying your maillog-file?

delete your maillog, touch a new one and killHUP your syslogdaemon :)

you could do a

rm -f /var/log/maillog && \
touch /var/log/maillog && \
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslogd restart

this might help ...

volker

"Ferguson, Michael" wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> What is the command to clear my maillog in its entirety?
> like exim -?? something
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas TEVESZ [mailto:ice [at] extreme]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: Stanier, Alan M
> Cc: 'exim-users [at] exim'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to find host name from IP address
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
>
> > 2002-05-03 11:06:22 recipients from [64.156.187.126] refused
> > (failed to find host name from IP address)
>
> conduct a manual test (-bh), that might reveal more information.
>
> --
> [-]
>
> --
>
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim
> details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
>
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ice at extreme

May 3, 2002, 4:23 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ollie Cook wrote:

> touch /path/to/maillog

this is actually not needed. thanks heaven (and Philip!) exim
re-creates the file if it does not exist.

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Nigel.Metheringham at dev

May 3, 2002, 4:26 AM

Post #10 of 13 (708 views)
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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 12:05, volker wrote:
> you mean emptying your maillog-file?
>
> delete your maillog, touch a new one and killHUP your syslogdaemon :)

Volker,

Exim does not typically use syslog, although exim4 does now have a
facility to do so.

If you are not using syslog, then rolling the log file is just a case of
moving it out of the way or deleting it. No need to create a new one,
no need to HUP anything (exim does not hold the logfile open for any
length of time).

Nigel.

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ollie at uk

May 3, 2002, 4:31 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:23:45PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ollie Cook wrote:
>
> > touch /path/to/maillog
>
> this is actually not needed. thanks heaven (and Philip!) exim
> re-creates the file if it does not exist.

Ah but syslog doesn't. That's just what I'm accustomed to.

Apologies for the confusion.

Ollie

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ollie [at] uk 020 7903 3065

ice at extreme

May 3, 2002, 4:35 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

On 3 May 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> Exim does not typically use syslog, although exim4 does now have a
> facility to do so.

exim 3 is having it for a while as well

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v.augustin at multiartstudio

May 3, 2002, 4:35 AM

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Re: Clear log [In reply to]

oh sorry, im only unsing exim4 just since one week, absolut newbie to
smtp...

can somebody tell me how to tell exim4 where the logfiles are going?
im just wondering and beeing very confused about exim4-configuration, is
there a more detailed loglevel? debugmode for exim ??

thanks

volker

Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 12:05, volker wrote:
> > you mean emptying your maillog-file?
> >
> > delete your maillog, touch a new one and killHUP your syslogdaemon :)
>
> Volker,
>
> Exim does not typically use syslog, although exim4 does now have a
> facility to do so.
>
> If you are not using syslog, then rolling the log file is just a case of
> moving it out of the way or deleting it. No need to create a new one,
> no need to HUP anything (exim does not hold the logfile open for any
> length of time).
>
> Nigel.
>
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> [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham [at] InTechnology ]
> [. - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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