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Subject: Re: bin/28738: IPFW log messages causes syslogd to fsync.
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> From FreeBSD.org!cjc Thu Oct 25 04:08:51 2001
>
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Feedback on using syslog.conf(5) to stop the constant sync's is
> requested. Unless there is a good reason why this solution is not
> sufficient, I'd like to clost this one up.

> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28738

In summary, cjc politely says RTFM (sort of :-).
Yes, I also would prefer to avoid a hardcoded solution.

As suggested, I've just tried  ...
	security.*		|exec cat -u >> /var/log/security

This workaround suits me just fine.
Thanks very much.
pk.

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