[pwharff]

I'm trying to do some SMTP investigation work (one of our employees is possibly given info to a competitor), however I cannot seem to find the log file for SMTP. I can find the /var/log/mail.log and other mail logs in /var/log, but I cannot seem to find the same file that is displayed in Server Admin under logs:smtp. The log in Server Admin is farely truncated, so I wanted to find the original log files for SMTP. Can someone help?

[pwharff]

Ok, I am dumb! It is located in /var/log/mail.log

I guess I didn't notice the "smtpd" line previously so I assumed there was a different file for this. Thanks anyway.

Ok, next question. Does anyone know of a better application for viewing/searching log files other than the built-in Console. I guess what I am looking for in a Console like program is the ability to show the line number, like in "vi". Also, does "vi" give you the ability to read ".gz" files, then I could do all this in "vi".

[Detrius]

well, zcat reads gz files. You could pipe that into something else.

[pwharff]

Originally posted by Detrius:
well, zcat reads gz files. You could pipe that into something else.

Great idea. Piping into grep will work great.