Re: [bug-mailutils] Configuring debug in imap4d.rc

[Chris Hall]

On 06/09/2012 02:40 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
>    mail.info                  -/var/log/maillog
Any idea what the '-' preceding the file name is for?

I've read the rsyslogd and rsyslog.conf man pages, I installed and read
the html docs, I went to the rsyslog web site and wiki, and nowhere did
I see an explanation. But my default rsyslog.conf had a couple of lines
without the '-' , so apparently it differentiates somehow, but I can't
figure it out.


#
# Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.debug -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err

It seems unnecessarily complex unless it means something -- but where
can I find an explanation? All those files are there an get written to,
so WTF? ;)

Very puzzled,

Chris