Var/log/mail.log file empty

My var/log/mail.log isn't logging anything, the file seems to empty since 4th March 2010 3:15 AM
Have tried the below mentioned troubleshooting steps, but no luck though
1. Stopped and restarted mail service
2. Repaired disk permissions through disk utility application
3. Repaired permissions through terminal diskutil
4. Restarted daemons as suggested in this forum http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2088823&tstart=60
5. Changed permissions as suggested on this forum http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-13985.html
Any help please!!!

Change the archive log to 3 days. Make sure all three log levels are set to information. Restart mail and see if any thing appears in the logs.
Also how are you viewing the logs - using SA or Console?
Thanks,
Henry

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Message was edited by: Mark Davies (didn't know h e l l was a swear word!!!)

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Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: VTIMEZONE does not match System Time Zone (Europe/Amsterdam) for 20100105T000000 to 20120105T000000: (
              "interval: 2001-01-01 01:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
          ) != (
              "interval: 2010-03-28 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
              "interval: 2010-10-31 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600",
              "interval: 2011-03-27 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
              "interval: 2011-10-30 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
          BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
          X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam
          TZID:Europe/Amsterdam
          BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
          TZNAME:CEST
          TZOFFSETTO:+0200
          DTSTART:19700329T020000
          END:DAYLIGHT
          BEGIN:STANDARD
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
          TZNAME:CET
          TZOFFSETTO:+0100
          DTSTART:19701025T030000
          END:STANDARD
          END:VTIMEZONE
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: VTIMEZONE does not match System Time Zone (Europe/Amsterdam) for 20100105T000000 to 20120105T000000: (
              "interval: 2001-01-01 01:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
          ) != (
              "interval: 2010-03-28 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
              "interval: 2010-10-31 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600",
              "interval: 2011-03-27 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
    "interval: 2011-10-30 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
          BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
          X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam
          TZID:Europe/Amsterdam
          BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
          TZNAME:CEST
          TZOFFSETTO:+0200
          DTSTART:19700329T020000
          END:DAYLIGHT
          BEGIN:STANDARD
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
          TZNAME:CET
          TZOFFSETTO:+0100
          DTSTART:19701025T030000
          END:STANDARD
          END:VTIMEZONE
And when I close iCal I get:
Jan 5 11:33:25 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x592592].com.apple.iCal[23894]: token mismatch: 4 != 5

I'm seeing the same thing, and I can't even find where OS X stores calendars on disk anymore...

Log.0000000001: log file open failed

I have been seeing an error off and on recently where my app will go along just fine writing to dbxml - and then for no apparent reason, blow up with
log.0000000001: log file open failed: No such file or directory
PANIC: No such file or directory
When I go look - there is indeed no log.00000001 in my dbxml directory.
What is the story with log.00000001? When is it created? What would cause this creation to fail. I have seen this problem on both an XP system and a Unix system.
I think I have made this problem go away by manually creating an empty log.0000001 file before I start my app - but this seems bogus.
Any tips appreciated

Hi,
If you have multiple applications or processes using Berkeley DB XML (including our utility programs) you may have set up a separate log directory for your log files or they simply were created in another directory. For this reason you may want to consider using a DB_CONFIG file and setting the location for your log files there.
For more information about this please look at these references:
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/db_config.html
DB_CONFIG
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/env_set_lg_dir.html
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/env_set_data_dir.html
An example for how to insert this information in a DB_CONFIG file is:
set_data_dir datadir
set_lg_dir logdir
Regards,
Ron Cohen
Berkeley DB XML Support
Oracle Corporation

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