Fw: output of CRON job

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shlomo,

I'm replying from my @gmail.com account due to problems in sending E-mail
to Linux-IL from shlomif at shlomifish.org [1].

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>wrote:

> OPPS - I meant to reply to the list.
>
> Actually, I already read about the possibility to install rsyslog, but
> aside from the "learning curve" of the new system, is there any real
> reason to do so? Are there problems with journalctl or is it just a
> desire to use the familiar old system?
>
> What's your recommendation?
>

Well, I find it convenient to have all the logs in their place as plaintext
instead of having to use the journalctl command which is invconvenient and
tends to trim the output to the screen limit, and I can also easily grep
the logs on the system or use other text-processing commands.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish


>
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:01:37 +0300
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Shlomo,
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:52:29 +0300
> > Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > MAILFROM in crontab solved the problem. I wonder if it's because
> > > this is a different version of postfix or because of the move from
> > > Mandriva to Mageia. In any case, thanks.
> > >
> > > BTW - based on your suggestion, I wanted to look at the MTA logs and
> > > discovered that Mageia's logs are in a completely different format
> > > - no more individual log files as in Mandriva, but journalctl -
> > > another new thing to learn about :-)
> > >
> >
> > You can restore the old logging facility by installing the "rsyslog"
> > package. Thanks to tmb on IRC for that.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >       Shlomi Fish
> >
>
>
>
[1] - The problem is that the Linux-IL SMTP server has been configured to
reject E-mails which are sent from a different IP after an initial
rejection as an anti-spam countermeasure, while my hosting uses several IPs
to send outgoing E-mails from it. When I contacted my hosting they told me
they would not do fix it and naturally, the Linux-IL SMTP server still has
that measure in place.

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