Related to /var/log/maillig

[David A. Bandel]

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:53:57 -0800 (PST)
Swapana Ghosh <swapana_ghosh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
>        Thank you very much.
> 
> >
> >      We are running   sendmail under linux.
> >      Last few days i am noticing that the /var/log/maillog is being
> >      stopped. I am starting though with *etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog
> >      start*. But after 2/3 days again it is being stopped.
> >
> >      i could not find out the problem why it is behaving like this..
> 
> >>Did you check the messages log to see when it was shutdown?   
> 
> Yes , after your suggession, i checked the /var/log/messages and found
> that on 13th Jan 2004 it is giving the following messgaes, and just at
> that time/var/log/maillog had been stopped. I mean the last messages
> at /var/log/maillog was at Jan 13 02:30:23.
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Jan 13 02:30:18 server popa3d[7583]: Didn't attempt authentication
> Jan 13 02:30:23 server syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No space left on
> device

Duh.  OF course everything stopped.

> ___________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> And i am seeing the /var  partition is 87% full. The other log files
> are running fine..

Probably because someone's 600Mb file attachment was d/l or deleted.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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