Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:25:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com> To: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." <tlayton@global-sol.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd help Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.92.961024150423.2780A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <199610231855.SAA20556@global-sol.com>
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On the router you might see something like "syslog-facility" and a default entry of something like "local7"... If you then go to /etc/syslog.conf, you'll need to add an entry to that file to tell syslog where to put things logged to the local7 facility. As for the format of the syslog file, that's an issue for a good UNIX book or the man page; the former being better if you want to know *why* certain things are logged at certain priority levels... I like the ORA Armidillo book for such things... Also, here's an example of how our Ascend boxes and annexes log to the loghost: local7.info /var/log/annexlog local6.info /var/log/annexlog local5.debug /var/log/ascendlog format is: logfacility.level destination Hope this helps a bit, Charles On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > I have a new router that logs messages to a unix system that uses > syslogd. FreeBSD obviously has this. I read the man page on syslogd > and apparently don't fully understand. > > My assumption is that the router sends the message to the syslog > daemon and it writes to a log file. Is this correct and what file > do I review to see what the log messages were ? > > > Thanks > Tim- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Timothy P. Layton, Sr. > http://www.global-sol.com > mailto:tlayton@global-sol.com > voice:314.298.0873 Fax:314.298.8482 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
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