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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: Writing to maillog on /tmp
From:       Noel Jones <njones () megan ! vbhcs ! org>
Date:       2015-04-25 18:30:13
Message-ID: 14cf1d80f38.283b.36c054332021322917f75ad75fdca5fb () megan ! vbhcs ! org
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On April 25, 2015 1:22:36 PM Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org> wrote:

> I started getting notices that the root partition was filling up on one
> of our mail gateways and find /tmp/maillog and /var/log/maillog both
> being written to with the same logging information. I have checked that
> these are two different files and not symlinks, the /tmp file is owned
> by admin while the /var/log file is owned by root. I am not sure how or
> why this is happening, can someone tell me what I can look for that
> would cause this behavior?
>
> -- Robert
>

Postfix doesn't log anything itself, all logging is handled by the system 
log utility. On most systems the settings are in /etc/syslog.conf or similar.





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