[CLUE-Tech] spam assassin

[Mike Staver]

No, I don't think they are compressed.  Pico allows me to open and 
browse the logs - and they look normal, minus the spam assassin messages 
that I KNOW where there before the file got renamed maillog.x.

Evan Widger wrote:

> Mike Staver wrote:
> 
> 
>> This has brought up a very interesting issue for me... I just started 
>> checking maillog.1, maillog.2, etc.  They are all void of spam 
>> assassin messages, when I *know* I got spam during those time 
>> periods.  Is syslog doing something to strip those log files of the 
>> messages I'm looking for when it rotates the logs from maillog to 
>> maillog.x?  I'm using Red Hat 9 BTW.
>>
> 
> 
> aren't the maillog.x logs compressed? ( ls -l should give you a hint) 
> cause if so, there's gonna be some un gzing to do before grep will touch 
> them.
> 
> - Evan
> 
> 
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