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. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org>