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

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not interested in duplicating the file.. still trying to grasp the in's &
out's of Linux.

Thanks!!

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William J.A.
Brillinger
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 7:01 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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William J.A. Brillinger
Precision Design Co.

E-Mail:   mailto:billy@xxxxxxxxxx
Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net

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