how do I get spamd to log to a diffrent file besides messages and mail.log.
edit your /etc/syslog.conf and use spamd's -s parameter to change what syslog facility to use.
Spamd isn't writing to any files at all, it's just doing standard unix-style system logging, and it's up to the system log daemon to decide where to go with them. I'd strongly recommend getting familar with syslog, since 90% of unix daemons use syslog.
Basicaly, in the syslog world, a program sends a log message and specifies a "facility" (ie: general source) and a "level" (ie: critical, warning, informational, debug, etc). By default spamd, and most mail deamons, use the facility 'mail' so they all get written to the same file.
Most linux systems have a manpage for syslog.conf, you might want to look at that.
Assuming a "old-style" syslog daemon (and not something newer like syslog-ng), if I wanted spamd to log to it's own file exclusively, I'd find a local facility that's not being used...
set spamd to log to that. spamd -s local3
then I'd configure syslogd to dump it somewhere
local3.* /var/log/spamd.log
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