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Full Discussion: /var/log/maillog isn't updating. Postfix related
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users /var/log/maillog isn't updating. Postfix related Post 302274759 by SkySmart on Thursday 8th of January 2009 09:47:54 AM
Old 01-08-2009
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Originally Posted by sysgate
Especially Postfix has great HOWTO-DEBUG document. You can follow the guidelines there, while making sure that no one has played with the file's permissions, etc. Start with postfix's restart, if feasible, and see if the file gets updated after test mail.


thanks a million for responding. i have tried quite a lot of things which includes rebooting the server, restarting postfix multiple times. manually rotating the logfile. none of which worked.

the maillog was working before but just stopped. below is the last errors that was written to the file.

Jan 8 03:14:01 nagios postfix/postdrop[30330]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Jan 8 03:19:46 nagios postfix/qmgr[30377]: fatal: do not run this command by hand
Jan 8 03:19:58 nagios postfix[30378]: fatal: chdir(/var/spool/postfix): No such file or directory
Jan 8 03:20:02 nagios postfix[30379]: fatal: chdir(/var/spool/postfix): No such file or directory


keep in mind, i've been able to get postfix running and sending emails as it is expected to do. i'm just not seeing anything being written to the /var/log/maillog file. i want to be able to see the progress of whatever postfix is doing and it is in maillog file that it use to be in.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

postfix-nochroot

postfix-nochroot(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       postfix-nochroot(8)

NAME

       postfix-nochroot - change /etc/postfix/master.cf to not use chroot

SYNOPSIS

       postfix-nochroot

DESCRIPTION

       Renames /etc/postfix/master.cf to /etc/postfix/master.cf.bak and creates a new /etc/postfix/master.cf file with every service configured to
       not use chroot.	Every modified line is commented.  It also restarts Postfix (to apply the change) and rmoves the unused chroot directories
       /var/spool/postfix/{etc,lib,usr} .

       Using a chroot environment makes upgrades more difficult and gets in the way when running SE Linux (without actually providing any security
       benefit in a SE Linux system).

SEE ALSO

       selinux(8),  sestatus(8),   selinuxenabled(1),	check-selinux-installation(8),	 selinux-config-enforcing(8),	selinux-policy-upgrade(8),
       http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux  - More about SELinux Debian install, http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/selinux/ - Russell's SE Linux blog posts,
       http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/02/postfix-and-chroot/ - post about this script.

AUTHOR

       This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Per-
       mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

															       postfix-nochroot(8)
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