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Date:      22 Apr 2003 11:59:46 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf: *.debug
Message-ID:  <1051027185.91524.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030423013826.O25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
References:  <20030423013826.O25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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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]



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