>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Wilson <si...@simonandkate.net> writes:

Simon> I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here... :(
Simon> Multiple RedHat8 servers, Postfix configured on all of them for
Simon> internal network mail server (primarily server log updates,
Simon> etc. to admin).

Have you restarted syslog (or syslog-ng, or rsyslog, etc) on the
problematic server?  

Simon> On all of them bar one, I get relevant logging in /var/log/maillog. On  
Simon> the one - maillog remains empty, even though mail is being sent OK.

Simon> I've diff-compared main.cf, master.cf and rsyslog.conf on one that  
Simon> logs to maillog and the one that doesn't. Main.cf has a different  
Simon> hostname specified, master.cf is identical. Both rsyslogd.conf have  
Simon> the following setup for mail:

Simon> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages
Simon> mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog

Simon> Yet nothing gets logged to /var/log/maillog on ONE of them. Mail is  
Simon> getting sent and received from the server.

Simon> Logging is working for other services.

Simon> journalctl -u postfix shows (at the end):

Simon> Jan 09 03:43:06 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/pickup[3162096]:  
Simon> 35E30201E928: uid=0 from=<root>
Simon> Jan 09 03:43:06 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/cleanup[3169954]:  
Simon> 35E30201E928:  
Simon> message-id=<20210108174306.35e30201e...@emp80.simonandkate.lan>
Simon> Jan 09 03:43:06 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1989]:  
Simon> 35E30201E928: from=<root.em...@simonandkate.lan>, size=102096, nrcpt=1  
Simon> (queue active)
Simon> Jan 09 03:43:06 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/smtp[3169963]:  
Simon> 35E30201E928: to=<r...@simonandkate.net>,  
Simon> relay=192.168.1.235[192.168.1.235]:25, delay>
Simon> Jan 09 03:43:06 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1989]:  
Simon> 35E30201E928: removed
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Jan 18 02:05:45 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1958]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Jan 18 02:11:25 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1958]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Jan 25 03:04:36 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1968]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Jan 25 03:08:02 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1968]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Mar 07 05:35:51 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1965]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Mar 07 05:39:01 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1965]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Apr 11 05:04:12 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[2009]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Apr 11 05:11:53 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[2009]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Jun 07 22:40:56 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1975]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Jun 07 22:49:31 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[1975]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality
Simon> -- Reboot --
Simon> Nov 04 17:58:53 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[2047]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump detected -- slewing clock
Simon> Nov 04 18:00:01 emp80.simonandkate.lan postfix/qmgr[2047]: warning:  
Simon> backward time jump recovered -- back to normality

Simon> ...where as can be seen it was logging OK in January, then it stopped.

Simon> Permissions on the log file:
Simon> -rw-------  1 root   root                    0 Nov 28 03:27 maillog

Simon> What am I missing??



Simon> -- 
Simon> Simon Wilson

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