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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:01:16 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf: *.debug
Message-ID:  <20030423020007.P25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <004901c308e7$0f471490$0200000a@fireball>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Craig Reyenga wrote:
> From: "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>
> >
> > /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added.
> >
> > syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this?
> >
>
> That's because debug is the lowest level of logging, so in effect, you _are_
> logging *.*; syslog logs debug and up, in all facilities, to the file you
> specified.
>
> -Craig
>

Yes. So maybe it should be changed to "*.=debug"

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/





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