On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva said:
> 
> Even though it's been a few weeks, I wanted to follow up to my problem.
> 
> When upgrading to 0.84  I ran into a problem where one of my 
> machines would no longer send mail notifications to postmaster. This turned 
> out to be my own fault. I built the binary on a machine that had a link 
> for sendmail in /usr/sbin , that's what configure found. When I moved 
> to a different machine  sendmail was only in /usr/lib (the Solaris 
> default), so clamav-milter couldn't run it.
> 
> However, clamav-milter will only log this if use_syslog is in effect, it 
> isn't written to the file log.  I find this a bit confusing.
> 
> clamd seems to not care if you use syslog or a file, it logs the same 
> information.  clamav-milter seems to log more information if you 
> are useing syslog, but takes that setting from the same config file as 
> clamd, that doesn't care.  
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly ?  Is there a reason the milter can't  
> output the same information to syslog or file, as clamd does ? Even if there 
> is, would the inability to run sendmail be something that should be logged 
> in either case ?

I have been seriously considering writing that patch that turns all the
messages to the console into logg() lines.  Seems this is another reason
to do so.  Team, are you interested?
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