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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:13:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com>
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Subject: Re: Syslog.conf problem..
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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, John Frader wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have the following in my syslog.conf file. The problem is that the
> daemon info is being logged to maillog. I don't know what is going wrong.
> Is it because of the way I have it set up or maybe something else? Anyway
> I can check?
> 
> mail.*             /var/log/maillog       
> daemon.info        /var/log/daemon.log 

Did you use tabs to delimit the fields?  syslogd is very particular about
using tabs.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major