From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 08:07:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08986 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08977 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id LAA02990; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:06:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980119110646.19564@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:06:46 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: John Frader Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog.conf problem.. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from John Frader on Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:20:26AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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.