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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: syslogd and sendmail question: I removed maillog
Date: 5 Nov 2024 22:41:20 GMT
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:21:38 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:

> I changed the timezone in my system and decided to start over with the
> mail log.  Without stopping sendmail, I removed /var/log/maillog.  Then
> I stopped it and started it.  I did not see a new maillog being created.
> I then restarted syslogd.  And also restarted sendmail.  Still no
> maillog.  I tried touching maillog and set the same permissions as the
> old file, which I renamed.  No messages written to maillog this way.  I
> looked at /var/log/messages to see if maybe mail messages were being
> logged there---I saw some, but they were still in the previous timezone,
> so they were not new.  I'm puzzled.  How wrong was what I did?

Best way to recreate any longfile is illustrated by this example for 
maillog:

  rm -f /var/log/maillog
  newsyslog -C /var/log/maillog

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