From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 08:59:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2881437B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D85743FAF for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.1] (allbery@allbery.dsl.telerama.com [205.201.8.182]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h3MFxM305623; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:59:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Andy Farkas In-Reply-To: <20030423013826.O25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030423013826.O25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051027185.91524.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 22 Apr 2003 11:59:46 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf: *.debug X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:59:35 -0000 On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:47, Andy Farkas wrote: > /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added. > > syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this? Isn't that normal behavior (foo.level logs all messages at level and higher, and debug is the lowest level, so foo.debug is the same as foo.*)? Possibly you want *.=debug instead (see syslog.conf(5)). -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]