Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 01:53:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logging in PPP Message-ID: <199709210053.BAA21120@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:09:53 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.96.970920171018.18400B-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
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> Allen, I have ppp from Sept 17, and I have successfully configured
> syslogd to log ppp transactions. I added:
>
> !ppp
> *.* /var/log/ppp.log
>
> to my /etc/syslog.conf, and:
>
> set log Phase Chat Connect Carrier LCP IPCP CCP
>
> to my /etc/ppp.conf file. Everything works nicely. Make sure the file
> /var/log/ppp.log exists. For some reason, if it didn't, syslogd would
> complain.
The reason being that syslogd doesn't know what permissions it should
create the file with.
Remember to also set newsyslog.conf up correctly (this will rotate
the log files, setting the correct permissions on the new one).
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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