On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:05:28 +0100, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've just noticed that my MTA logs into both mail.info and mail.log:
>
> ,----
> | % LANG=C diff -s /var/log/mail.{info,log}
> | Files /var/log/mail.info and /var/log/mail.log are identical
> `----
>
> This is on sid with postfix as MTA and rsyslog as syslogd. Since I
> didn't change the default configuration for these logs AFAIK, this seems
> to be a bug. Anyone else seeing this with a different MTA and/or
> different syslogd?
>
> I'd like to file a bug report, but don't know which package to blame.
I am seeing the same running postfix on Lenny. I have never touched any
logging options AFAIK. I don't think this is 'new' behaviour:
gaia:/home/bob# ls -la /var/log/mail* | egrep '\.log|\.info'
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 508733 2008-12-10 10:15 /var/log/mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1030017 2008-12-07 05:23 /var/log/mail.info.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 148223 2008-11-30 06:24 /var/log/mail.info.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 129061 2008-11-23 06:11 /var/log/mail.info.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 119684 2008-11-16 05:50 /var/log/mail.info.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 508733 2008-12-10 10:15 /var/log/mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1030017 2008-12-07 05:23 /var/log/mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 148223 2008-11-30 06:24 /var/log/mail.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 129061 2008-11-23 06:11 /var/log/mail.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 119684 2008-11-16 05:50 /var/log/mail.log.4.gz
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