From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 16:37:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00641 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00360 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA09759; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:22:46 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801282122.VAA09759@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Maruca, Fran" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Multiple ppp logs In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:04:26 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:22:46 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > I pretty new to BSD in general and was hoping someone could help me out. > I'm a couple of issues with ppp logs that I can't seem to get around. > > 1) It seems that I can't simply create a file called ppp.log in > /var/log and have ppp use it. I've ensure the proper rights and the > owner as root:wheel but no luck. The next time I bring up ppp the log > remains empty. > > 2) My ultimate goal is to create up to 16 dial-out ppp > connections. I'd like to have a separate log for each session. > According to the System Manager's Manual I can do this by creating a > link in /usr/sbin to ppp and calling pppX where X is a variable. Also, > the appropriate entry in /etc/syslog.conf must be entered. I do this > and reboot but again, when I bring up ppp the logs remain empty. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have you created the syslog.conf entries with the necessary characters - ie. ``ppp1\n*.*\t/var/log/ppp1.log'' ? You must also create an initial log file (or add it to newsyslog.conf). > Thanks, > Fran Maruca -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....