mail.log dead

wonderful. if there's anybody who reads these, I could use help restarting my mail.log. in the course of attempting to get sendmail or postfix working (still, neither do), I chose to delete my mail.log file, to purge all the invalid tests. now the file doesn't generate. some idiot suggested running: syslogd restart but, that's no a function of the syslogd command: man syslogd syslogd [-d] [-f config_file] [-m mark_interval] [-p log_socket] [-u] I've had lots of suggestions by unix people on a lot of topics, I think a total of 2 have been *correct* suggestions. Unix 'experts' don't seem to know their OS afterall. can *****anybody***** help me with getting mail.log restarted? really, is there *****anybody***** even out there, I haven't had a single response on this server. I'm starting to think this is a cobweb.