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RE: [cobalt-users] How to watch Mail POP's in real time??
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] How to watch Mail POP's in real time??
- From: "William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Nov 3 05:02:02 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
-----Original Message-----
As root:
tail -f /var/log/maillog
Comes in handy. Spotted some AOL luser trying to send spam every second
for a few minutes until I had to /sbin/route add -host 172.183.232.82
reject
At 02:19 AM 03/11/02 -0600, you wrote:
Say.. is it possible to pipe the output to a file or log to?
Jerry
It is logged, in /var/log/maillog
*why* would you want to duplicate this huge file?
otherwise, tail -f /var/log/maillog > newfilename
- Bill B.
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William J.A. Brillinger
Precision Design Co.
E-Mail: mailto:billy@xxxxxxxxxx
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