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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:00:23 -0500
From:      SERVICE Jim -TS+NP DVLPMT <Jim.Service@oht.hydro.on.ca>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: syslog.conf 
Message-ID:  <ACFC07E2E0DAD111A55F00600894C8C752B5B1@KEX2.RD.Hydro.ON.CA>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Black [mailto:gjb@comkey.com.au]
Sent: 22 February, 1999 06:01
To: Patrick Seal
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syslog.conf 


> I'm trying to restrict the messeges that fill up my messeges log file
into
> a sudo log. This is what I have so far:
> 
> *.notice;kern.debug;mail.crit                   /var/log/messages

Using this worked for me:

*.notice;kern.debug;mail.crit;sudo.none		/var/log/messages

Though, syslog would complain to the console which I don't normally look
at
anyway.

> 
> !sudo
> *.*                             /var/log/sudo
> 
> But sudo stuff still goes into messeges as well as sudo.  How can I
> restrict sudo stuff from the messeges file? I've tried sudo.none but
that
> doesn't seem to help, and the man page isn't much help either.


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