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> Make sure you use tabs between the *.* and the file name - if you use 
> spaces, syslogd ignores the line.  I've added an appropriate comment 
> to the man page.
> 
> I'm not sure why you're getting an error - you'll have to be a bit 
> more specific about that.

Well that was it, I used spaces instead of a tab. I even looked in a bunch 
of my books and while there is much about the syslog facility, none 
mention using tabs to separate the file name from the other names.

The error, I would imagine, would come from when syslogd first runs on 
bootup, reads the .conf file and see's spaces where there should have been 
tabs.

At anyrate, learned what I needed to know about syslog now.

Thanks.