THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK

Maintaining your E mail Log

File

Your Virtual Server mail system maintains records of its actions in the

~/usr/log/messages file. Each time a message passes through the virtual

SMTP server, sendmail creates logs of the transaction. Each time a user

checks his or her mailbox through the virtual POP or IMAP server, the

transaction is logged. The ~/usr/log/messages file can be used to gauge

virtual server activity and diagnose problems.

The 

~/usr/log/messages

 file contains log entries from various

programs. Each entry, one per line, contains the following:

A time stamp (recording the date and time of the log entry).

The name of the originating program.

The text of the log entry.

Since the 

~/usr/log/messages

 file has a tendency to grow large over

time, reset it periodically.

To reset the 

~/usr/log/messages

 file

1.

From you virtual server command prompt, enter

cat /dev/null > ~/usr/log/messages

This action removes all messages recorded in the logs.

Note:  Before resetting the log, prepare archival copies, if needed.

2.

The vnl  r command resets the messages file and the Web server log

files.

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