Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:41:45 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: =?UTF-8?B?0JrQvtC90YzQutC+0LIg0JXQstCz0LXQvdC40Lk=?= <kes-kes@yandex.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sudo log messages Message-ID: <20111204144145.98dc9726.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <353504866.20111204053419@yandex.ru> References: <353504866.20111204053419@yandex.ru>
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 05:34:19 +0200, Коньков Евгений wrote: > Tell me please how to stop sudo to food /var/log/messages? ADDITION: Of course I meant /usr/local/etc/sutoers, NOT sudo.conf. Instead of logging via syslog (to /var/log/messages), why not use a specific log file for sudo? Add those lines to the sudoers file: Defaults logfile=/var/log/sudo.log Defaults !syslog Make sure /var/log/sudo.log exists, and maybe use newsyslog.conf to deal with log rotation and archiving. However, you can easily purge sudo log information this way, if required. The file /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers contains an example. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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