From: Curtis Vaughan (curtisnpc-usa.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 17:22:56 CDT

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Recently, I experienced the following problem. Postfix stopped
permitting people to send mail. The reason I discovered was because
the maillog.* files in /var/log/ had taken up all the space in /var.
So, I moved all back logs except the most current. Postfix worked fine
after that.

Because I don't have the option of adding another HD to the system,
someone advised that one solution would be to make a link in /var/log
for the log files.
So, I edited syslog.conf so that the it would save maillogs to
/var/log/maillog/

I moved all maillogs to /usr/maillog/ and then mail a soft link of
/usr/maillog/ to /var/log/maillog

Unfortunately, after restarting postfix it does seem to be working but
the maillogs are not changing.

Did I do something really stupid? or, is there something I haven't
considered. Thanks!

Curtis Vaughan

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