RE: [Exim] syslog question (4.10)

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Auteur: Jeffrey Wheat
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Aan: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: RE: [Exim] syslog question (4.10)
Philip,

    In src/smtp_in.c, line 1544, the following was causing the duplicates in
the maillog using syslogging:


log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_REJECT, "%s %s%srejected %s%s", host_log_info,

I changed it to:

log_write(0, LOG_REJECT, "%s %s%srejected %s%s", host_log_info,

and my problem has gone away. I still get an entry in the reject log as
well as in the main log. Haven't tried this using just the log files.

Regards,
Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:28 AM
> To: Jeffrey Wheat
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: RE: [Exim] syslog question (4.10)
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Jeffrey Wheat wrote:
>
> > Ok, so if I understand this correctly, I have to do something like
> > this:
> >
> > mail.info;local4.none
> /var/log/maillog
> > mail.notice;local4.none
> /var/log/maillog_rejects
> > mail.alert;mail.err;mail.crit;local4.none
> /var/log/maillog_errors
> >
> > Which of doesn't work.
>
> I am _not_ a syslog expert, and I can't remember details of
> how it works, but reading what I wrote in the spec again:
>
> > > The syslog 'facility' is set to LOG_MAIL, and the
> > > program name to 'exim'.
>
> > > The three log streams are mapped onto syslog priorities
> as follows:
> > >
> > >      "mainlog" is mapped to LOG_INFO

> > >
> > >      "rejectlog" is mapped to LOG_NOTICE

> > >
> > >      "paniclog" is mapped to LOG_ALERT

>
> suggests to me that maybe you should be configuring
> "exim.info" rather than "mail.info". But without doing some
> research (for which I haven't got time just at the moment) I
> can't be sure of that. I can't recall what the difference
> between 'facility' and 'program name' is...
>
> There isn't at present any way of stopping Exim from writing
> rejection info to both the main and reject logs. The idea
> (when using separate
> files) is
>
>   (1) You can easily scan the rejection data without having to wade
>       through the rest (and if you want to, you can delete it on a
>       shorter interval).

>
>   (2) Additional data can be given in the rejectlog (e.g. message
>       headers).

>
> The syslog facility was added because some people wanted it,
> but as I say, I'm no expert (nor a user), so I did the
> minimum and waited for complaints. :-)
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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