Yes it logs via syslog, however if it isn't told to log data to sm-mta and sm-msp, no amount of syslog directive is going to do that. It's something with the CentOS sendmail package that's disabling that. When I do a stock Fedora install, I get three separate log files: /var/log/maillog /var/log/sm-mta /var/log/sm-msp The same thing happens if I download the tarball from sendmail.org and install that. Three separate log files. However, with CentOS, for some reason, it never logs anything to those sm-* files nor are they ever created. I guess I'll have to break the yum dependency, remove the package and install sendmail manually to get those log files. Seems rather dumb. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>wrote: > Doesn't really matter, though...Sendmail logs via syslog, and syslog > usually defaults, on a RH/CentOS system, to /var/log/maillog. > > Double check /etc/rsyslog.log to be sure. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just > stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 > > > > Sure, for those who want to run Postfix that's great. In my case, we run > > Sendmail. Simple package selection during installation. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Robert Moskowitz > > <rgm at htt-consult.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> On 01/15/2013 12:43 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >> > >>> I'm baffled ... on a stock 6.3 install, where does sendmail dump its > >>> log > >>> files sm-mta and sm-msp respectively? Al I can find is the statistics > >>> file > >>> and maillog. > >>> > >> > >> My understanding is that Postfix has replaced Sendmail. At least on my > >> 6.3 install. And I am happy for that. > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >