Subj : Problem tossing mail
To : Alan Ianson
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 05 2019 09:21 am
On 2019 Jan 05 05:33:00, you wrote to me:
>> i don't know how bbbs logs or if you are on *nix but i have increased my
>> syslo retention so i could have time to go back and hunt down anomalies
>> days or week later...
AI> I am running slackware and I haven't deleted any logs yet (it's a new
AI> install). I will add the logs to logrotate at some point. I usually keep
30
AI> days of logs.
on our ubuntu servers, our (non-bbbs) setup logs to syslog and that's where we
have to monitor/grep to see what the main part of the bbs is doing... some
additional parts log to their own log files outside of syslog but not many...
AI> BBBS writes classic logs. Mailer sessions are logged in each nodes log
AI> and utilities like bogus (the tosser/scanner) log to log0.
ahhh... ok, so it doesn't use the logging facility on the system? i know that
there is a way for it to write to individual logs but i rarely ever change it
to do that...
>> tldr; do the logs indicate why that file was left behind and the
>> processing didn't complete properly?
AI> No, the log0 just logs one line like this..
AI> 181231 21:15 Message base locked
ahhh... and there's nothing further back indicating an abort or exiting error
condition?
)\/(ark
Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Clear out, or I'll set the cats on you
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