Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:38:47 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Bruce Bauman <boot@mosquito.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960114133457.8862E-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199601142116.QAA17625@itchy.mosquito.com>
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On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Bruce Bauman wrote: > We are a small ISP using a Livingston Portmaster attached to a couple > of FreeBSD machines. We are extremely pleased with our setup - > everything works really well. But, I have a question about syslog.conf. > > We get many lines in our /var/log/messages of the form: > > Jan 14 15:55:03 pm1 dialnet: port S3 connection succeeded dest dial16.mosquito.com > > How can we cause these to not be written to the logfile? > Is there a way to capture lines of the form: > > Jan 14 15:55:33 pm1 dialnet: port S6 jsmith.PPP login failed > > but ignore lines which are just successful connections? The documentation isn't > really clear on this. You need to look at /etc/syslog.conf and the man pages. You need to determine if the PM's log messages at different levels (ERROR, or NOTICE), and then you can use /etc/syslog.conf to filter them. It doesn't make a big deal. I've used PM's before, and just ignored all the syslog'ing that they do. Tom
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