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Andy Farkas wrote:
> /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added.
> 
> syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this?

Move the line to the end of the file.

It's probably bogus, in general, since it means everything
for anything that isn't logged elsewhere is logged there.

-- Terry