Re: Newbie .forward not working

Dwight Johnson <djohnson(_at_)olympus(_dot_)net> writes:
> var/log/maillog was showing that the aliases.db was out of date,
> so I did newaliases. I wanted to get a clearer picture of the
> maillog, so I deleted it expecting it would be regenerated with
> only the latest messages. But it was not regenerated.
syslogd never creates files, it only appends to them.  Touch the file, then
send a SIGHUP to syslogd:

        touch /var/mail/maillog
        kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`

Philip Guenther