From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 5 10:31:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01090 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01085 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA05019; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:31:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:31:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brian Somers cc: Kwoody , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP log file In-Reply-To: <199710051025.LAA12056@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > Running a 2.1.7 system, installed the August 20th release of PPP the day > > after it was released. Added: > > > > !ppp > > *.* /var/log/ppp.log > > > > to my syslog.conf and sent a kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` to syslogd. > > > > My ppp.lgo file has not been written too since the upgrade. The above > > addistion to syslog.conf is from the man page. Did I send the right kill > > to syslogd? > > > > I do get an error from syslog when I reboot about something not being > > right in the conf file, but as far as I can see it seems to be correct. > > > > Anyone have a hint...? Not a big deal really as its only my using this > > system, but would like something to be logged anyway. > > Make sure you use tabs between the *.* and the file name - if you use > spaces, syslogd ignores the line. I've added an appropriate comment > to the man page. > > I'm not sure why you're getting an error - you'll have to be a bit > more specific about that. Doesn't ppp automatically log to /var/log/ppp.tun0.log? Does on my 2.2-STABLE system. > > > kwoody@citytel.net > > > > > > > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations * | Windows: turning workstations into typewriters | * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*