From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 18: 1:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC2337B82A for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA19140 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:01:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-45-028065.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.65]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma019070; Wed, 14 Jun 00 20:01:11 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA79358 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:30:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:30:28 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question regarding Syslog Message-ID: <20000614173028.A79324@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4A2568FE.00150E92.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4A2568FE.00150E92.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>; from Peter.Weber@ipaustralia.gov.au on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:49:58PM +1000 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:49:58PM +1000, Peter.Weber@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > When the syslog.conf file specifies that a message be written to a log file > and that log file does not exist it appears the message is simply lost. ---end quoted text--- When you edit syslog.conf and want to log to something like /var/log/foo, then simply type touch /var/log/foo and you're all ready to go. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message