From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 18:42:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1135937B400 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-63-198-133-39.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO edinburgh) (sgeine@63.198.133.39 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2002 02:42:36 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Jesse Geddis" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: syslogd.conf Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:42:36 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just noticed the typo in the subject. should have been syslog.conf. also i fixed it by adding: local0.none for /var/log/messages so i'm all set and have it logging how i wanted it. it appears log-login logs on level .notice or above which is why messages was picking it up. i had thought it was logging on .info and messages wouldn't catch it or if i set local0.* it would work like an ACL and go with the first match but it doesn't appear to. thanks again. Jesse Geddis "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." --Ronald Reagan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message