Re: Mail logs missing in wheezy

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:19:30 -0700, David Guntner
> 
> What things are logged where is controlled by the /etc/rsyslog.conf
> file.  "man rsyslog.conf" for more information about the layout of the
> file.

Here's an extract from the rsyslog.conf file:

#
# First some standard log files.  Log by facility.
#
auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
#cron.*                         /var/log/cron.log
daemon.*                        -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.*                          -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.*                           -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.*                          -/var/log/mail.log
user.*                          -/var/log/user.log

I can't find it mentioned in the man page for rsyslog.cong what the minus
signs mean in front of the file names.

-- hendrik

> 
>           --Dave