[CLUE-Tech] spam assassin

[Evan Widger]

Mike Staver wrote:


> This has brought up a very interesting issue for me... I just started 
> checking maillog.1, maillog.2, etc.  They are all void of spam assassin 
> messages, when I *know* I got spam during those time periods.  Is syslog 
> doing something to strip those log files of the messages I'm looking for 
> when it rotates the logs from maillog to maillog.x?  I'm using Red Hat 9 
> BTW.
> 


aren't the maillog.x logs compressed? ( ls -l should give you a hint) 
cause if so, there's gonna be some un gzing to do before grep will touch 
them.

- Evan