Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:52:44 GMT From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Sunil Sunder Raj" <unixtools@hotmail.com>, <webmaster@cyberdogtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs Message-ID: <200405161352.I4GDQH1R074444@asarian-host.net> References: <BAY8-F23Ij3u0iK36Ix000227ae@hotmail.com>
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Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > Hi, > Just give 777 permissions to /var/log/messages With all due respect, but that is rather bad advice. I have been running = syslog on FreeBSD 4.7R for years, without problem; and never ever did I = have to resort to making /var/log/messages world-writeable. Besides, = that is totally unnecessary too: syslogd runs as root, so only root = needs write permissions (and, since it is root, probably not even that). You can run syslogd like this: /usr/sbin/syslogd -s Or something like: /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.6.0/24 if you need to log from remote machines. Your /etc/syslog.conf should = look something like this: ---------------------------- *.err;kern.debug;mail.crit /var/log/messages *.notice;lpr.info;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security mail.info /var/log/maillog ---------------------------- Cheers, - Mark
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