From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 23:43:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vail.net (vail.net [199.45.148.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC8837BA81 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ivanfetch@technologist.com) Received: from gatekeeper.cfcc.com (cfcc.com [204.144.216.251]) by vail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20690; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:39:00 -0700 (MST) Received: from ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com (168.191.172.69 [168.191.172.69]) by gatekeeper.cfcc.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id FB03WKC5; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:48:02 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:42:12 -0700 (MST) From: Ivan Fetch X-Sender: ifetch@ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com To: Gene Harris Cc: Ivan Fetch , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can ipfw log to somewhere else other than the console? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, [snip] > > I added the following to /etc/syslog.conf prior to writing my previous > > message, and restarted syslog: > > *.* root > > Umm... Not quite right. The entry would log to a file > named root in the current directory. Also, the file "root" > must exist. This part workked (for other syslog messages) - I would receive syslog output when ever I was logged in as root. I got the concept from other entries already present in /etc/syslog.conf from FreeBSD 3.4-release: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.9.2.1 1999/08/29 14:19:02 peter Exp $ # [snip] *.err root *.notice;news.err root #*.alert root [.....] Ivan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message