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From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:32:55 +0000
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Subject: Re: dhcpd logging
To: Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Why not continue to use syslog, but tell it to log dhcpd to a separate log
file? Just add these two lines at the bottom of your /etc/syslog.conf
(above the !* line):
!dhcpd
*.* /var/log/dhcpd.log

More information is in syslog.conf(5) man page, or here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html

Regards,
Ben
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 at 2:23 am Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> wrote:

> 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 !
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