[comp.unix.wizards] syslog in sendmail

bassen@ifi.uio.NO (10/29/87)

	 Anybody had trouble making sendmail (latest Berkeley version)
	 log activity in syslog?
	 
	 I have just tried on a SUN-3/280 running SUNOS 3.4 amd on
	 Ultrix 2.0. Before I look futher into the problem I would like
	 to check out if this is a known bug/feature.
	 
	 T S Lande
	 University of Oslo
	 arpa:bassen@ifi.uio.no

ndd@duke.UUCP (10/29/87)

In article <10043@brl-adm.ARPA>, bassen@ifi.uio.NO (Tor Sverre Lande) writes:
> 
> 	 Anybody had trouble making sendmail (latest Berkeley version)
> 	 log activity in syslog?
> 	 
> 	 I have just tried on a SUN-3/280 running SUNOS 3.4 amd on
...

I tried to mail this, but news gave me a bogus path.

Make sure that the machine(s) that you want logging to occur on
say loghost in /etc/hosts. For example, we do all our sendmail
logging on sunbar:

128.109.148.1   dukebar dukebar.mc.duke.edu dukebar-lan
128.109.148.2   sunbar sunbar.mc.duke.edu loghost
...

Without the loghost entry, no logging is done. I ran into this on
a Sun under 3.2.


Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942

burdick@iuvax.UUCP (Matt Burdick) (10/30/87)

In article <10043@brl-adm.ARPA>, bassen@ifi.uio.NO (Tor Sverre Lande) writes:
> 
> 	 Anybody had trouble making sendmail (latest Berkeley version)
> 	 log activity in syslog?
> 	 
> 	 I have just tried on a SUN-3/280 running SUNOS 3.4 amd on
>...

I beleive that the 4.3bsd syslog has a new argument.  Use the syslog
that came with BIND (the name server) or recompile sendmail with the
#define LOG   in conf.h commented out.  Of course, this means no
logging...
						-Matt


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