From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 16:15:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sequoia.astea.com.au (sequoia.astea.com.au [203.20.95.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A7B414FBC for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from betterformat@astea.com.au) Received: from guildenstern.astea.com.au by sequoia.astea.com.au via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 23:15:47 UT Received: from kliger.astea.com.au (kliger.astea.com.au [222.2.2.50]) by astea.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10136; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:37:57 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199909162337.JAA10136@astea.com.au> From: "betterformat" To: "Michael Kennett" , Subject: Re: syslog problem Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:06:25 +1000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micheal, you are a champion!..... wouldn't have thought of that in a month of Sundays........ Thanks, Leo > > Just a suggestion: replace all of the space characters (' ') with tabs. > > > For some reason, I too have always had problems making changes to the > > syslog.conf file. I use the following tools to help debug syslog.conf > > changes: > > > [helpful hints omitted, along with most of the original post] > > > > betterformat wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > I had my fbsd firewall logging to the console but I wanted > > > to log to a file instead for a while..... so I made the following > > > changes:- > > > > > > *.* @10.0.0.15 > > > *.* /dev/console > > > > > > was changed to:- > > > > > > *.* @10.0.0.15 > > > *.* /var/log/sys.log > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message