Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:06:46 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog.conf problem.. Message-ID: <19980119110646.19564@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980119081642.23407A-100000@mylanders.com>; from John Frader on Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:20:26AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117231241.6065j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980119081642.23407A-100000@mylanders.com>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:20:26AM -0600, John Frader wrote: > Yes I did. And for some reason it still doesn't work. It works fine > on another machine. I can't figure it out. I don't have to have it this > way but I wan't telnetd and similiar messages all in a seperate file. > > On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > 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 > > Did you HUP syslogd after making changes to your syslog.conf file? If you did, perhaps posting the entire /etc/syslog.conf file will let us see if there's a problem with it. You might want to attach it to the email as well so the tabs don't get converted to spaces. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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