From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 11:59:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFD416A418 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E925413C428 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1711015pyb for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:59:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=tfUCNddxlt93cCqWYoAmOQh5urHvpmRAlH9/pvA5XrA=; b=BXm+/D8MpGlJRnM88l/rjHeAVnanIGYCh9I9UnB2fSezA0VI/XKIVOlamBW4iXRQP5FgZ+f2H14R9yAC3+cvgqXweNcb7FRejsEhtm1NVW5c1t/+7smFHHPdkS8V5IIZ44JqmEsjS5lJM4zHrHKNoqs+hi7srt/MM7PfuCRHtgs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=FOJGi5RGcjogRe6Svr9Hb6DjlXwYjOwRhZoub9NkzmTua8rj9Matki+o6r90ms/880oeffnWYPnmpYzv+S3n+Hoy8dFNMywIZBIRPlukSFT4Y6OVnclFHmRWmVm7mBcfk+RFVRcl3wntd5FM91TF8y1qPXJv8m4sIvaTrAO9hac= Received: by 10.35.96.11 with SMTP id y11mr2158791pyl.1189771197719; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm1331871pyb.2007.09.14.04.59.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:59:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46EA5848.70506@nicoelro.net> References: <46EA5848.70506@nicoelro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8653F3CD-5A2B-4D06-8F2D-27DB89A5C51C@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:59:35 -0500 To: nicolas@nicoelro.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Question about syslog.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:59 -0000 On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:45 AMSep 14, 2007, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question with syslog.conf. I don't find informations about > this on man. > What the utility of : > > !startslip > *.* /var/log/slip.log > !ppp > *.* /var/log/ppp.log > > I don't understand how it works, because I think we must use a \ to > return on a new line ! For example, startslip includes ALL (.*.) > except !startslip ? I don't think... Because I read that. > > Could you explain me ? > ![process] is probably the easiest way to describe it. It's sorta opposite of how it's used in normal evaluations. In these cases, ALL facilities for the startslip process will go to /var/log/slip.log. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks