From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 18:22:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E494074D for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [23.235.65.68]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C601D35B for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 254-68-235-23.qcislands.net ([23.235.68.254] helo=[192.168.1.8]) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YbCMr-000BD4-7C; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:18:57 -0700 Message-ID: <55144D86.2080105@paz.bz> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:18:46 -0700 From: Jim Pazarena User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dhcpd logging Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-local_scan: locally submitted (54) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:22:55 -0000 I want to place dhcpd log messages in a file rather than the syslog facility LOG_DAEMON. So I see that with the command line flag "-d" I can direct messages to stderr. How can I adjust the normal rc.conf to actually TELL the system the file name? Is there a way? Also, I would want to append to the file via ">>" rather than clobber it every time I reload dhcpd. Thanks !