From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 5:10:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alanis.uebs.itacs.to (N710P023.dipool.highway.telekom.at [212.183.98.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699D037B8BF for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 05:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philipp@alanis.uebs.itacs.to) Received: (from philipp@localhost) by alanis.uebs.itacs.to (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00301 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:08:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philipp) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:08:05 +0200 From: Philipp Huber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system messages to file instead of console - HOW? Message-ID: <20000410140805.A239@alanis.mini.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from magnus@ringen.net on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:15:42AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:15:42AM +0200, Magnus Lundquist wrote: > Hi - > > I would love it if all messages were dumped in /var/log/messages > rather than on my console.. anyway to do this? > > /Magnus > hi ! take a look at /etc/syslog.conf. i think the file is self-explaining, but i have an own logfile for things which usually appear on /dev/console, for me it's /var/log/misc man syslog.conf -- Philipp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message