Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:14:08 +0100 From: Peder Blom <dion@bredband.net> To: Supote Leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why can't I implement syslog ? Message-ID: <20040319141408.3c653517.dion@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <20040319081859.73821.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040319081859.73821.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Supote Leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to log my message by using syslog so I altered > /etc/syslog.conf like below (kill and re-start syslogd as well) > > # file: /etc/syslog.conf > -- snip --- > > local1.debug /var/log/myScript.log > > > and in a shell script I use > > # /usr/bin/logger -i -p local1.debug -t myScript "this is a > testing log message." > > after I run above script nothing to file:/var/log/myScript.log. > Why not or > I miss something ? > You might have a program or hostname specification preceding your line from syslog.conf. Probably true if you just appended the line to syslog.conf. This would limit the scope of logging. See man syslog.conf! The file "myscript.log" must exist before you restart syslogd to re-read the configuration.
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