Package: rsyslog
Version: 3.18.5-1
Severity: normal
Reading /etc/rsyslog.conf:
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| # First some standard log files. Log by facility.
| # [...]
| mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
| user.* -/var/log/user.log
|
| #
| # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
| # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
| #
| mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
| mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
| mail.err /var/log/mail.err
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, as a layman I would assume that mail.log is a catch-all file, errors
go to mail.err, warnings to mail.warn and information to mail.info.
However, when I look into the files, the warnings and errors also show
up in mail.info which makes this file rather redundant. In fact, it
always has the same content as mail.log:
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| % for ext in {,.1,.{2,3,4}.gz}; do diff -s /var/log/mail.{info,log}$ext; done
| Files /var/log/mail.info and /var/log/mail.log are identical
| Files /var/log/mail.info.1 and /var/log/mail.log.1 are identical
| Files /var/log/mail.info.2.gz and /var/log/mail.log.2.gz are identical
| Files /var/log/mail.info.3.gz and /var/log/mail.log.3.gz are identical
| Files /var/log/mail.info.4.gz and /var/log/mail.log.4.gz are identical
`----
My MTA is postfix, if that makes a difference.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rsyslog depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages rsyslog recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages rsyslog suggests:
pn rsyslog-doc <none> (no description available)
pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> (no description available)
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