On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:34:27AM -0500, Virginia Chism wrote:
> I received a failure notice concerning an email I did not send. I am
> attempting to track down how this happened and have hit a wall. When I do
> 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' I get current activity. If I do 'more
> /var/log/maillog' it goes all the way back to day one and I don't have time
> to slog through FOUR YEARS of maillog when what I need was a couple of days
> ago. Is there any way to select a certain number of items to view in this
> log?
tail -200 /var/log/maillog
will get you the last 200 lines in the file. I usually do it as
tail -200 /var/log/maillog | more
and adjust the tail number-of-lines argument to get me to the date range
that I want.
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