From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220706201202r7b5c0e43obebff353581661e0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:02:28 -1000 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] smtpd no longer running? In-Reply-To: <7d3530220706201145j2ffa7802le34759bb13f82199@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <41ec6a1f74b6e8a678b07c9d63c893f8@9netics.com> <7d3530220706201145j2ffa7802le34759bb13f82199@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 83ef59f8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/20/07, John Floren wrote: > On 6/20/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > > > no. that shouldn't do anything except shunt log information to /dev/null. > > > if you are using either venti or ken's fs, this won't save you any space as the > > > old log file is already in an arena (or in the dump). > > > > syslog man implies that the file has to be there. > > > > doesn't fossil pay attention to DMTMP bit? > > > > > > Well, part of the problem was that I had /sys/log/smtpd set mode 664 > instead of 666. I changed that, and now I'm seeing the following in my > log file: > csplan9 Jun 20 14:41:51 helo from 130.203.4.6 as mail.cse.psu.edu > csplan9 Jun 20 14:41:51 [mail.cse.psu.edu/130.203.4.6] > cse.psu.edu!9fans-bounces+john=csplan9.rit.edu -> csplan9.rit.edu!john > sendercheck: error > > Shed any light on the matter? > Thanks to John-Galt on #plan9, I found out that it's also necessary to have /sys/log/smtpd.mx, because the validatesender script apparently doesn't have the cojones to create its own. Anyway, /sys/log may end up getting the temporary flag, because although the logs are useful, I don't see any reason to preserve a bunch of mail logs for all posterity. Thanks John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn