Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thursday 2005-03-31 at 15:38 +0100, Paul Gardiner wrote:

> Ta, but I really wanted to stop them going in at all.  I do similar to
> what you suggest when monitoring, with the line
> 
> tail -f /var/log/mail | sed -e '/imapd/d'

I don't think you can. The syslog daemon records what the program tell it 
to record, with the "facility" and "priority" the program wants. Meaning 
that, yes, you have to recompile.

However... there is some hope.

SuSE definition in /etc/syslog.conf is

mail.*                             -/var/log/mail


I would recommend you try something like this instead:

mail.notice                     -/var/log/mail

mail.err                        /var/log/mail.err
mail.debug                      -/var/log/mail.debug


Now, file "/var/log/mail.debug" will have the same information as your old 
"/var/log/mail" had. But the new "/var/log/mail" will have much less 
information, only those of level "notice". Less verbose, that is.

Then, you should also reconfigure logrotate appropriately. You can use 
different settings for each file.


-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson