Somewhat OT postfix question

[shane mullins <ts...@wise.k12.va.us>]

I tried searching the archives on the postfix.users groups and google,
but came up empty.  Here is our issue:  We have two spam servers.  A
primary and secondary postfix/sa box.  Our primary box writes every smtp
transaction to the screen.  Since it is a busy mail server, it is
virtually impossible to do anything on the box.  Our secondary box,
which is lightly used, does not do this.  I know this is a postfix
issue, but any help would be appreciated.

Shane

Re: Somewhat OT postfix question

[Rainer Sokoll <R....@intershop.de>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:22:27PM -0500, shane mullins wrote:

I've never seen postfix, but:

> primary and secondary postfix/sa box.  Our primary box writes every smtp
> transaction to the screen.  Since it is a busy mail server, it is
> virtually impossible to do anything on the box.  Our secondary box,
> which is lightly used, does not do this.  I know this is a postfix
> issue, but any help would be appreciated.

I bet it is a /etc/syslog.conf issue.

Rainer

Re: Somewhat OT postfix question

["Eric W. Bates" <er...@vineyard.net>]

We've used postfix for years and I have never seen it write to console. 
  It does, of course, write messages to syslog. Is your syslog config 
writing to console?

shane mullins wrote:
> I tried searching the archives on the postfix.users groups and google,
> but came up empty.  Here is our issue:  We have two spam servers.  A
> primary and secondary postfix/sa box.  Our primary box writes every smtp
> transaction to the screen.  Since it is a busy mail server, it is
> virtually impossible to do anything on the box.  Our secondary box,
> which is lightly used, does not do this.  I know this is a postfix
> issue, but any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Shane
> 

Re: Somewhat OT postfix question

[Loren Wilton <lw...@earthlink.net>]

> I made sure
> that amavis was set to write to the syslog, but that didn't help either.
I
> am pretty puzzled.  I usually ssh into the box, but I can go to the
console
> and choose another screen.

Did you restart amvis after making the logging change?

        Loren

Re: Somewhat OT postfix question

[Shane Mullins <ts...@wise.k12.va.us>]

Thanks Aaron,

    I changed the /dev/console to /var/log/messages, but it didn't help.  I 
was wrong, it was amavisd-new that was writing the messages.  I made sure 
that amavis was set to write to the syslog, but that didn't help either.  I 
am pretty puzzled.  I usually ssh into the box, but I can go to the console 
and choose another screen.

Shane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Nichols" <ad...@gmail.com>
To: "shane mullins" <ts...@wise.k12.va.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Somewhat OT postfix question


> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:22:27 -0500, shane mullins
> <ts...@wise.k12.va.us> wrote:
>> I tried searching the archives on the postfix.users groups and google,
>> but came up empty.  Here is our issue:  We have two spam servers.  A
>> primary and secondary postfix/sa box.  Our primary box writes every smtp
>> transaction to the screen.  Since it is a busy mail server, it is
>> virtually impossible to do anything on the box.  Our secondary box,
>> which is lightly used, does not do this.  I know this is a postfix
>> issue, but any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>
> It's actually more likely a syslog issue - most likely that mail log
> events are being logged to the console. My default syslog.conf states:
>
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
>
> So any mail.crit and mail.err messages would go to the console. On
> most unix boxes you can either type ALT-F2 and get another console
> (which will not get these) or you can turn off the logging.
>
> Aaron