On 06/05/2012 07:30 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > In dealing with an unrelated issue I came across this in rsyslog.conf. > [...] > Why is there a "-" before /var/log/maillog? [...] A leading '-' indicates the the log is written asynchronously. It is a performance tune to keep writing the syslog from thrashing the system with syncs. See http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html -- Benjamin Franz