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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:16:14 -0500
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: FreeBSD8.1 Can't get Syslog file to Log dhcpd  Solved.
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	Ah, the  havoc of one stray space at the beginning of
a line.

	I had noticed that all the other examples of various
logs one could create in syslog.conf worked right. What on Earth
was so special about:

 *.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.warning		/var/log/syslog

It's that one stray space before the first asterisk.

I removed it and everything started working.

Martin McCormick