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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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postfix-add-filter

POSTFIX-ADD-FILTER(8)					      System Manager's Manual					     POSTFIX-ADD-FILTER(8)

NAME

       postfix-add-filter - add filter service to Postfix master.cf

SYNOPSIS

       postfix-add-filter [smtp service name...] [smtpd port...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  postfix-add-filter(8)  command  adds an smtp service named smtp service name and and smtpd server listening on smtpd port to etc/post-
       fix/master.cf to facilitate integration of SMTP filters such as amavisd-new or clamsmtp.  The configuration is based on the upstream recom-
       mendations for amavisd-new 2.6.0.  Adminstrators should verify it is appropriate for their requirements.

       The original file is copied prior to modification and left in /etc/postfix to make it possible to revert changes easily.

       Available in the Debian package for Postfix version 2.5.3 and later.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If  the given smtp service name or smtpd port already appear in the master.cf, a message will be printed to standard out and master.cf will
       not be modified.

ENVIRONMENT

       MAIL_CONFIG
	      Directory with Postfix configuration files.

	      The postfix-add-filter(8) command should use this, but it currently doesn't.  It is hard coded  to  /etc/postfix.   This	should	be
	      changed.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

       None

FILES

       /etc/postfix/master.cf

SEE ALSO

       postconf(5), Postfix configuration

LICENSE

       This software is licensed under the MIT open source license.

AUTHOR(S)
       Scott Kitterman
       <scott@kitterman.com>

															     POSTFIX-ADD-FILTER(8)
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