Sahil Tandon wrote (on Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:23:22PM -0400):
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:
>
> > I'd like to stop postfix from scribbling to syslog.
> >
> > syslog stuff from main.cf ('postconf -n' data upon request):
> >
> > syslog_facility = mail
> > syslog_name = postfix
> >
> > # grep -v "#" /etc/syslog.conf
>
> [ .. ]
>
> > I'm getting full Postfix output to syslog, mail.log and mail.info.
> > What am I missing?
>
> Assuming you did not make any mistakes while editing syslog.conf, did
> you restart syslogd(8) after making the changes? Postfix simply logs to
> the mail facility; how syslogd(8) handles this is not a Postfix issue.
>
> --
> Sahil Tandon <[email protected]>
yes, with /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; I also HUPed the only process,
'rsyslogd -c4', to come out of 'ps ax|grep log'.
also, at some point, I had made other changes which caused postfix to
also write to messages; then I backed them out, and those messages
stopped.
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