Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:27:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: root@edmweb.com (Steve Reid) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf questions Message-ID: <199605231827.LAA07908@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960522184128.474A-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com> from "Steve Reid" at May 22, 96 06:56:04 pm
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> I'm trying to get syslog to log messages from pppd to a seperate file > (/var/log/pppd). The man page for syslog.conf says I need to use "!pppd" > to log messages from that program, but I can't get it to work- nothing > appears in the /var/log/pppd file. > > Also, how can I set up two machines so that they share each other's > messages? I've tried something like this: > > On Kirk: > *.warning;kern.debug;auth.info;mark.info /var/log/messages > *.warning;kern.debug;auth.info;mark.info @spock > > On Spock: > *.warning;kern.debug;auth.info;mark.info /var/log/messages > *.warning;kern.debug;auth.info;mark.info @kirk > > The problem is, one machine recieves a message from the other, it logs the > message and sends it back, causing the messages to be bounced back and > forth forever. Very ugly. This facility is for centralizing log messages, not distributing them. To avoid the loop, you will need to change: local local event event | ,----. ,----. | v v | | v v ,-------. | | ,-------. |syslogd| | | |syslogd| `-------' | | `-------' | | `-----|-. | | v `----------' `--' v local local log log To: local local event event | | v v ,-------. ,-------. | +--. | | ,--+ | | | | | | | | | | v | | | | v | | o<-|--|<. ,>|--|->o | | | | | | | | | | | | v v | | | | v v | `-------' | | `-------' | | `-----|-. | | v `----------' `--' v local local log log You do this by making a disctintion based on whether the source is local or remote and whether the destination is local or remote. This is pretty much how you do mail/news gateways. 8-). The NetBSD modified syslog might already do this (or if that's what you are running, it might be your problem in the first place). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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