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Subject: Re: Logging in PPP 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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).

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
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