From owner-freebsd-security Sat Dec 5 13:33:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13399 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phluffy.fks.bt (net25-cust202.pdx.wantweb.net [24.236.25.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13392 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Received: from localhost (myke@localhost) by phluffy.fks.bt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01582; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:32:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling X-Sender: myke@phluffy.fks.bt To: ilg@Romania.EU.net cc: "'Roger Marquis'" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Syslog.conf setup In-Reply-To: <008a01be2092$695450c0$0395e2c1@ilg-mobile> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > This example is trying to use "*" as a log level, which is incorrect. > > You can use "*" to indicate all facilities but not all log levels. I wasted an afternoon once figuring this out, the man pages don't make it as clear as it should be. Basically, "*" is valid for facilities, but not for levels. A level means "log everything at this level and above". Since debug is the lowest level, it catches everything. If you wanted to catch every single message, you would use *.debug Hope this helps. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message