From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 8 06:20:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29443 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29436 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15436; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:19:31 -0600 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:19:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: holland@i-p-d.com cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper and syslogd In-Reply-To: <199901080801.JAA06512@ns.i-p-d.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message