From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 05:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03335 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03272 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA06451; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:13:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Frader cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog.conf problem.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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