Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:37:47 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog problem Message-ID: <199710222137.WAA01513@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:14:05 GMT." <344f0879.169859067@mail.leirianet.pt>
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> Hi,
>
> I'm having a little problem configuring syslog.conf to log all kernel
> messages of priority notice or higher.
>
> In /etc/syslog.conf I have:
>
> kern.notice /var/log/kernel.log
>
> The file kernel.log was created by root with touch and the permissions
> are:
>
> 195 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Oct 22 15:15 kernel.log
>
> But I'm not managing to log any messages in kernel.log.
>
> I tried to use logger with:
>
> #logger -p kern.notice Testing...
>
> And I log the message in messages (because of *.notice in syslog.conf)
> but nothing goes to kernel.log.
>
> Any sugestions?
>
> Thanks,
Syslog.conf is quite particular about <TAB>s rather than <SPACE>s.
It tends to just ignore lines w/ spaces :-(
> Jose
>
>
> Sp*mbots buffet...
> --------------------
> webmaster@localhost,
> abuse@localhost,
> postmaster@localhost,
> postmaster@fbi.gov,
> postmaster@policiajudiciaria.pt,
>
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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