Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:09:33 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: License to kill annoying syslog feature? Message-ID: <199702190339.OAA09285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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If I have a syslog.conf fragment like :
!
*.notice /var/log/messages
!zog
* /var/log/zog.log
And the 'zog' programs logs something at *.notice, the log message ends up
in both places.
This is a _spectacular_ pain in the ass with things like socks, which
are odiously verbose. (And some of our own software, but I have a
brick waiting for the pleb responsible for that problem, so we can
ignore it here.)
I'd like to know what people think about a couple of possibilities :
1) Only log stuff to the 'wildcard' file entry if it hasn't matched another
rule already.
or
2) Add another meta-config entry like !, say %, which implies that
log messages from the named program will _only_ be processed according
to the following rule(s).
Of the two, 1) is likely to have the traditionalists unhappy but introduces
fewer platform incompatabilities.
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