On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:47:08 -0400 Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: > > > Sahil Tandon wrote (on Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:02:34AM -0400): > > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: > > > > > > > Sahil Tandon wrote (on Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:23:22PM -0400): > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > yes, with /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; I also HUPed the only > > > > process, 'rsyslogd -c4', to come out of 'ps ax|grep log'. > > > > > > You are aware that rsyslogd != sys(k)logd, right? > > > > In the interest of clarity, system is running Ubuntu Lucid, and > > there is no syslogd on the system (except /etc/default/syslogd), > > only sysklogd, which seems to be its replacement. > > And yet your ps(1) output indicates that only rsyslogd is running? > I'm not an Ubuntu user, so perhaps someone else can chime with a > hint. Since this does not appear to be a Postfix issue, you might > also wish to pursue this on a more appropriate mailing list. syslogd has been replaced by rsyslogd. man rsyslogd hint: /etc/rsyslogd.conf > -- John