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From: george vagner <kf7nn@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: syslogd sending stuff to every terminal
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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# $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13.2.2 2001/02/26
09:26:11 phk Exp $
#
#       Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this
file.
#       Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit         
/var/log/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err
/var/log/messages
security.*                                     
/var/log/security
mail.info                                      
/var/log/maillog
lpr.info                                       
/var/log/lpd-errs
cron.*                                         
/var/log/cron
*.err                                           root
*.notice;news.err                               root
*.alert                                         root
*.emerg                                         *
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to
/var/log/console.log
console.info                                   
/var/log/console.log
# uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages
to /var/log/all.log
*.*     *
# uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost
named loghost
#*.*                                           
@loghost
# uncomment these if you're running inn
# news.crit                                    
/var/log/news/news.crit
# news.err                                     
/var/log/news/news.err
# news.notice                                  
/var/log/news/news.notice
!startslip
*.*                                            
/var/log/slip.log
!ppp
*.*                                            
/var/log/ppp.log

--- Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:57:29PM -0700, george
> vagner wrote:
> > no matter who logs in just about every thing that
> > happens to the server gets sent to the terminals
> > such as mail sent and received even the atrun 
> > commands.
> > 
> > I cant even edit a file without it scrolling all
> over
> > my screen about who just tried to ftp in or send
> mail
> > etc...etc...
> > 
> > I was looking into syslog.conf and made a small
> change
> > to send console messages to a file but still get
> this
> > after sending syslogd a -HUP signal.
> 
> Since I've lost my crystal ball, can you show your
> syslog.conf.
> 
> Edwin
> 
> -- 
> Edwin Groothuis   |              Personal website:
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