On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:51:06 +0100 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2015-03-13 21:12 +0100, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > > I have Postfix and Dovecot running on my Debian Jessie/testing > > system. When I first setup the system a few months ago, I know that > > Postfix and Dovecot were both logging to /var/log/mail.log through > > syslog because I was using it to diagnose issues. I can also view > > entries in the old rotated files (/var/log/mail.log.4.gz). > > > > It seems that they are not logging [there] anymore. My Postfix > > configuration has no options set regarding logs, which leaves > > everything at default (using the mail facility of syslog). Dovecot > > is also set to log to the mail facility of syslog. > > Is your syslog daemon actually running? > > > I have not installed any type of non-default syslog, nor have I > > touched the syslog config or any log rotation daemon's config. > > So I assume you use rsyslog. What does "service rsyslog status" say?
It seems this system has syslog-ng. This is a month-old Jessie install on a laptop. $ ps aux | grep syslog root 252 0.0 0.3 77928 3404 ? Ss Feb20 0:07 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F $ sudo systemctl status syslog-ng syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-02-20 21:42:58 EST; 2 weeks 6 days ago Docs: man:syslog-ng(8) Main PID: 252 (syslog-ng) Status: "Error parsing new configuration, using the old config (Fri Mar 13 01:42:05 2015" CGroup: /system.slice/syslog-ng.service └─252 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F I read that error in the status, which lead me to: $ sudo syslog-ng --syntax-only syslog-ng: Error setting capabilities, capability management disabled; error='Operation not permitted' I looked through the [several] configuration files (/etc/syslog-ng/) for the string "capabilities", but didn't find anything. These software systems are getting more and more complex. I've been using linux and bsd for many years and it seems that I don't even know where to look to solve problems anymore with all these new systems with linux. Maybe it would be better if I installed a plain old simple syslog daemon. Is there an alternative one to syslog-ng?
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