Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:19:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: holland@i-p-d.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper and syslogd Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9901080800410.15099-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <199901080801.JAA06512@ns.i-p-d.com>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 holland@i-p-d.com wrote:
> i contacted a friend that runs freebsd 2.2.7 and he couldnt get
> it to work in the following format
>
> !popper
> *.* /var/log/popper
This doesn't work because the labels in the left column are "syslog
facilities" and not program names.
> so we read the docx and it says popper logs as local0.
> he then adds...
>
> local0.notice;local0.debug /var/log/popper
>
> and it worked perfectly, yet on our system it doesnt.
Does that log file exist? Do:
touch /var/log/popper
as root to create an empty file for syslog to use.
More importantly, did you stop and restart syslog? Sending it a SIGHUP
should make it reread /etc/syslog.conf:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
Do a "man 8 syslog" and "man 5 syslog.conf".
Cheers,
Mick
The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com
Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral
Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji
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