Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:24:42 +0000 From: Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk> To: Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcpd logging Message-ID: <20150327092442.GB51823@xtaz.uk> In-Reply-To: <55144D86.2080105@paz.bz> References: <55144D86.2080105@paz.bz>
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On Mar 26 11:18, Jim Pazarena 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. > As Ben said in the other reply. Why not just use syslog? I do this in /etc/syslog.conf: At the top of the file above all the other lines: !-dhcpd ... At the bottom of the file below all the other lines: !dhcpd *.* /var/log/dhcpd.log !* This will cause all log lines from dhcpd to go to that file and remove them from all of the other files. And then something like this in /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/dhcpd.log 640 3 * $W6D0 Which will rotate it every week. -- Matt
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