logging postfix and others

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> I just started looking into this....
>
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>
>> What are others doing for logging?
>>
>> Postfix wants to use syslog facilities and I would like to move the  
>> logs from /var/log to /opt/local/var/xxx.
>
> I knew we needed to do this, but I had no idea it was going to be an  
> issue, I see it as being one now.  One way, would be to leave them  
> as they are, write a small launchd item that pipes them from /var/ 
> log/mail to wherever we want, seems messy, less than ideal.
>
>> But changing /etc/syslog.conf doesn't seem like a macports way of  
>> doing it.
>>
>> I'm not totally opposed to making changes to /etc/syslog.conf but I  
>> wouldn't be surprised if Apple supdates over wrote them some day.
>
> I would say, it is pretty stable, in that it is how it is now, but  
> right it is going to change, for sure.
>
>> I'll figure this out but in case there is something more or less  
>> standard for macports packages I thought I'd ask.
>
>
> I do not know of anything, but this gets worse.  Somewhere in /etc/ 
> periodic, it a roller, that will roll the mail logs, but it saves a  
> certain amount of them, and then rolls them off, deleting them. If  
> we keep using syslog for postfix, we have to also tell people to  
> alter that, as it is too frequent a lot roll.  Some will not want  
> them deleted as well, like myself.  So add that to your list of  
> things to solve about thsi logging issues :)

I'm going to look into the syslog-ng port and switching postfix to use  
syslog-ng.

Crossing my fingers. I really think I should be able to find a five  
minute simple low risk solution to moving postfix logs.

//Brad