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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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