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RE: [cobalt-users] How to watch Mail POP's in real time??



-----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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