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I installed and set-up Postfix + Dovecot + Roundcube to handle my mail on my VPS running Arch. Everything seems to be working pretty well, except that I have no mail.log file in /var/log because I never had a reason to rely on syslog-ng until I installed Postfix. Once it became clear to me that Postfix relies on syslog, I installed and enabled syslog-ng hoping it would start sending logs to /var/log/mail.log (at the suggestion of this post) but it still does not exist.
syslog-ng did create a few new logs (messages.log, kernel.log, everything.log), and a couple of people have found Postfix logs getting thrown into messages.log, but I do not have anything in there related to Postfix.
Short of uninstalling Postfix (which I'm loath to do because of the complex configuration required), is there any way I can get Postfix to either start using syslog-ng, or is there a way to get Postfix to just write it's own log files? Google searches and some other investigations suggest that Postfix only works with syslog/syslog-ng however, so the latter seems unlikely.
Here are the contents of my current syslog-ng configuration (syslog-ng.conf).
@version: 3.5
@include "scl.conf"
#
# /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
#
options {
stats_freq (0);
flush_lines (0);
time_reopen (10);
log_fifo_size (10000);
chain_hostnames (off);
use_dns (no);
use_fqdn (no);
create_dirs (no);
keep_hostname (yes);
perm(0640);
group("log");
};
source src {
system();
internal();
};
destination d_authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); };
destination d_syslog { file("/var/log/syslog.log"); };
destination d_cron { file("/var/log/crond.log"); };
destination d_daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };
destination d_kernel { file("/var/log/kernel.log"); };
destination d_lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); };
destination d_user { file("/var/log/user.log"); };
destination d_uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); };
destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };
destination d_news { file("/var/log/news.log"); };
destination d_ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); };
destination d_debug { file("/var/log/debug.log"); };
destination d_messages { file("/var/log/messages.log"); };
destination d_errors { file("/var/log/errors.log"); };
destination d_everything { file("/var/log/everything.log"); };
destination d_iptables { file("/var/log/iptables.log"); };
destination d_acpid { file("/var/log/acpid.log"); };
destination d_console { usertty("root"); };
# Log everything to tty12
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
filter f_auth { facility(auth); };
filter f_authpriv { facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_syslog { program(syslog-ng); };
filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };
filter f_kernel { facility(kern) and not filter(f_iptables); };
filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); };
filter f_mail { facility(mail); };
filter f_news { facility(news); };
filter f_user { facility(user); };
filter f_uucp { facility(uucp); };
filter f_ppp { facility(local2); };
filter f_debug { not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail); };
filter f_messages { level(info..warn) and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news, cron) and not program(syslog-ng) and not filter(f_iptables); };
filter f_everything { level(debug..emerg) and not facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_emergency { level(emerg); };
filter f_info { level(info); };
filter f_notice { level(notice); };
filter f_warn { level(warn); };
filter f_crit { level(crit); };
filter f_err { level(err); };
filter f_iptables { match("IN=" value("MESSAGE")) and match("OUT=" value("MESSAGE")); };
filter f_acpid { program("acpid"); };
log { source(src); filter(f_acpid); destination(d_acpid); };
log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(d_authlog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(d_syslog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(d_cron); };
log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(d_daemon); };
log { source(src); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_kernel); };
log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); destination(d_lpr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(d_mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); destination(d_news); };
log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(d_ppp); };
log { source(src); filter(f_user); destination(d_user); };
log { source(src); filter(f_uucp); destination(d_uucp); };
#log { source(src); filter(f_debug); destination(d_debug); };
log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(d_messages); };
log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(d_errors); };
log { source(src); filter(f_emergency); destination(d_console); };
log { source(src); filter(f_everything); destination(d_everything); };
log { source(src); filter(f_iptables); destination(d_iptables); };
# Log everything to tty12
#log { source(src); destination(console_all); };Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Last edited by cmorgenstern (2015-04-11 23:19:39)
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It seems that eventually syslog-ng got around to creating a mail.log when postfix was upgraded recently, so the problem is fixed. To anyone else who is experiencing this problem: make sure you are running the latest versions of postfix and syslog-ng, and that your syslog-ng systemd service file is loaded and running.
Last edited by cmorgenstern (2015-04-11 23:20:52)
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