How Do I Enable Logging?

A couple of weeks ago I did an "ipkg upgrade" on my NAS box. Someone had updated the xmail binaries for my server and it was upgraded. Unfortunately the upgrade overwrote all of my xmail configuration files!!!

After a couple of hours work I did manage to get xmail running again and all has been OK since then. However, I just went to look at the log files and found that no logs have been created since I had the above problem. I looked in the server.tab file but can't see anything about enabling log files.

So, where do I enable logging?

I've done a little more digging and found out about the command line switches. In S43xmail I have set the command line switches to

XMAIL_CMD_LINE="-Pl -Sl -Ql -Yl -Fl -Cl -Ll -SX 1 -Qn 1 -Yt 1 -Ln 1 -PX 1 -CX 1"

which I believe should have enabled logging for just about everything. But still no joy. When I check the logs with PHPXmail I still only see the logs up to the day when I did the upgrade. If I manually check the logfile directory it confirms that there are only logfiles up to that date.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

Please check: l is a lowercase L, nothing else.


-- Harald

Yes they are all lower case with the exception of the one that is supposed to be an L.

It's quite strange because everything is working fine apart from the logging. Logging was all working fine before I did the upgrade.

When are the dated log files created? If it is when xmail starts is there some way I can tell it to show me what it is doing during startup so that I might see an error message? If not then I suppose I will just have to live without the logs but I did like taking a look at them from time to time to ensure that nothing untoward was happening on my server.

Maybe XMAIL_CMD_LINE is not regogniced for some reason.
Pls start XMal from command line with

cd /var/MailRoot/bin
export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot
./xmail --debug -Md -Pl -Sl -Ql -Yl -Fl -Cl -Ll -SX 1 -Qn 1 -Yt 1 -Ln 1 -PX 1 -CX 1

OK I just tried that. I had to modify your commands a little as everything is under /opt and the xmail executable is in /opt/var/MailRoot and not in the bin subdirectory (there is nothing in there at all). I also needed to add start before the command line switches.

It worked! I now have log files for today. So I wonder why starting it with "/opt/etc/init.d/S43xmail start" doesn't work properly anymore? It definitely starts the server OK but just no logs.

Maybe the debug switch will give me some clues. Does that do some additional logging and if so where?

Some output goes to /var/logs/messages

Pls post your init.d script. Looks like XMAIL_CMD_LINE is not exported correctly.

I checked the /var/log/messages file and there didn't seem to be anything of relevance.

The script that is used to start xmail is /opt/etc/init.d/S43xmail The relevant part (I think ) is below. This script runs at system startup and I also use it to restart xmail if I manually stop it for some reason. It definitely starts xmail OK but just doesn't do any logging.


XMAIL_ROOT=/opt/var/MailRoot
XMAIL_CMD_LINE="-Md -Pl -Sl -Ql -Yl -Fl -Cl -Ll -SX 1 -Qn 1 -Yt 1 -Ln 1 -PX 1 -CX 1"
PATH=$XMAIL_ROOT/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/opt/bin/XMail
NAME=XMail
DESC="XMail Server"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e
ulimit -c 10000
ulimit -s 128

start_xmail()
{
MAIL_ROOT=$XMAIL_ROOT
export MAIL_ROOT
MAIL_CMD_LINE=$XMAIL_CMD_LINE
export MAIL_CMD_LINE
rm -f /var/run/$NAME.pid
$DAEMON
while [ ! -f /var/run/$NAME.pid ]
do
sleep 1
done
}

Looks good, but for some reason it cannot read then env variable MAIL_CMD_LINE. Maybe you run it chrooted ?

You also have this in your script, do you ?

However changing this line
$DAEMON
to
$DAEMON $XMAIL_CMD_LINE

should work as well.