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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:00:22 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
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In the last episode (Apr 28), Sean Chittenden said:
> I have a dedicated syslog machine that I use to collect syslog
> messages from all over the network.  Instead of splitting up the log
> files manually, I'd like to have syslog do this for me.  Right now I'm
> just using a normal *.* collection, but I'd like to filter out mail
> from everything else.  I've tried every combination of:
> 
> !=mail.*
> !=mail
> !mail
> !mail.*
> !-mail
> !-mail.*
> 
> With *.* before and after using either ; or , to separate the two.
> This has to be possible... but what's the syntax?  Is this just a case
> of ENOSLEEP and I'm missing it someplace in the man page?  -sc

Try 

*.*;mail.none	/path/to/logfile

"mail" is a facility name, not a program name. 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com