From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 5 13:27:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E4E37B416 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g35LRAY9021794 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:27:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds... From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: <21793.1018042030@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in some cases even with several copies of them. For the life of me I cannot understand why we feel the need to whine like that at any root which crosses our way, so unless somebody can explain to me why this is vital, I'll commit the following patch. Poul-Henning Index: syslog.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/syslog.conf,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 syslog.conf --- syslog.conf 11 Mar 2002 19:34:57 -0000 1.20 +++ syslog.conf 5 Apr 2002 21:24:07 -0000 @@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/log/cron -*.err root -*.notice;news.err root -*.alert root *.emerg * # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log #console.info /var/log/console.log -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message