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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:08:29 +1000 (EST)
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Subject: Syslog and local
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Hi,

I read the man pages for syslog and syslog conf and then tried to setup
syslog to write all calls to local.err to /var/log/local2.err.log

I modified /etc/syslog.conf to read...

*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit		/dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit	/var/log/messages
mail.info					/var/log/maillog
lpr.info					/var/log/lpd-errs
cron.*						/var/cron/log
local2.err					/var/log/local2.err.log
*.err						root
*.notice;auth.debug				root
*.alert						root
*.emerg						*

I then (as root) type kill -1 <syslog pid>

But it didnt appear to work...I tested it using:

logger -p local2.err WonK

but the messages was logged in /var/log/messages.

Any Ideas?

Andrew