Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:03:07 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf: *.debug Message-ID: <20030423020154.Q25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1051027185.91524.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
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On 22 Apr 2003, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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)).
Perhaps the default should be changed to *.=debug.
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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