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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" <rafareta@icave.com.mx>
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Subject: Re: syslog 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 19:46:46 CST."
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On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 19:46:46 CST, "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" wrote:

> I'm want to send the squid log to /var/log/squid instead of
> /var/log/messages so I added to /etc/syslog.conf the following line:
> 
> squid.*                                         /var/log/squid
> 
> and killed -1 the process (even rebooted) but nothing happened
> 
> Where am I wrong?

Apart from not reading the syslog.conf(5) manual page? :-)

For a start, there's no such facility as ``squid''.  If you want all the
messages from squid to go into /var/log/quid, you want something more
like:

	!squid
	*.*					/var/log/squid

Also, the /var/log/squid file _must_ exist _before_ you HUP the syslogd
process (or reboot).  It can be empty, but it must exist.

All this is explained in the syslog.conf(5) manual page, by the way. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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