From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 02:16:47 CDT

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* Curtis Vaughan <curtisnpc-usa.com>:
> 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.

Restart syslogd!

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