Re: [webmin-l] I just noticed something peculiar

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:46, Bob wrote:
> In the Webmin Sendmail module or more precisely in the System/System
> Logs/File /var/log/maillog  View
> 
> Last  lines of /var/log/maillog    Only show lines with text    
> 
> I have noticed that the above criteria for display now picks up ALL
> /var/log/maillog* instead of just /var/log/maillog
> 
> Since I rotate my mail logs every 2MB the current log should never be
> greater than 2MB.
> 
> But when I ran the above display, I noticed that it was taking a very
> long time to produce the results, then I noticed that it went all the
> way back to the August 31 log ---which I have named
> maillog200508311402
> 
> Webmin never used to do this and only recently have I noticed a
> problem and I thought at first that something was wrong with my mail
> server.
> 
> Is there a way to tell it ONLY to search /var/log/maillog with NO
> additional chars in the name?
> 
> I need to run this fairly often as I have many users on the mail
> server and when they complain about an error, I try to search for
> particulars.
> 
> It would be nice to have the OPTION of searching ALL logs, but the
> default should be the main one or ALL which can be switched as needed.
> 
> Version 1.230 on mail.dexis.net (Redhat Linux 7.2)

Hi Bob,
This is a new feature in Webmin 1.220 and above - by default, rotated
log files are included in the search as well. However, there is a
setting on the Module Config page of the syslog module that can be used
to revert back to the old behaviour of just searching /var/log/maillog .

 - Jamie