Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:33:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Drew C Morone <drew@j51.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd questions Message-ID: <199910060733.IAA14843@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:47:12 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051546100.46602-100000@dt011n66.san.rr.com>
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> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Drew C Morone wrote:
>
> > What can I do to get ipfw from logging to /var/log/messages?
> > I have added
> > !ipfw
> > *.* /var/log/ipfw
> >
> > but now it logs to both files.
>
> Have you tried what the syslog.conf man page talks about inre the
> .none facility?
That doesn't help here - I think what we really want in syslog.conf
is the ability to specify !prog.level as an alternative to
facility.level. Then we could say something like !prog.none.
Maybe ``!'' isn't a good character here... It's meant to indicate that
a program follows, and not as a logical NOT.
> Doug
> --
> "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty."
>
> - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback"
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