I've just had something similar, it was down to spacing in the syslogd.conf file, it really didn't like spaces - needed to be tabs. I think this is due to the file be parsed by m4.
Neil. On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:04, Doug Koobs wrote: > Since upgrading Cyrus imapd to 2.2.3, there have been no entries in > /var/log/imapd.log. I did a little Googling, and learned that syslog is > actually doing the logging. syslog is running, the ps command shows: > > root 1565 1 0 Apr10 ? 00:21:33 syslogd -m 0 > > In /etc/syslog.conf, I have the following pertinent lines: > > mail.* /var/log/maillog > local6.debug /var/log/imapd.log > > /var/log/imapd.conf is rw for root, the same as the other log files. I can't > find any errors related to syslog in /var/log/messages. I tried removing the > empty file, and restarting syslog. This creates a new imapd.log file, but > nothing gets written to it. > > If I comment out the local6.debug line, then the imap log entries get logged > to /var/log/maillog/ This is OK, but I'd rather have a separate logfile for > imap. What am I doing wrong? > > Doug > > > > Confidential: This electronic message and all contents contain information from > Financial Credit Services which may be privileged, confidential or otherwise > protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be for the addressee only. > If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copy, distribution or use of the > contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message > in error, please notify the sender and destroy the original message and all copies. > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
