From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 14:46:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29952 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:46:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA29947 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id QAA21387; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:47:55 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma021370; Thu Mar 27 22:47:25 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970327163946.00c11818@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:39:47 -0600 To: random junk From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: syslog.conf question Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:55 AM 3/27/97 -0800, random junk wrote: >is there any way to get all syslog messages from a certain program into another >file? in particular, i'm interested in named. unfortunately named uses >daemon, which a lot of other programs use. if i put > >!named >*.* /var/log/named > >in syslog.conf, it uses that in addition to the other destinations. i'd really >like that section be to be exclusive. Change the LFAC, recompile, 'touch' the new log file, HUP syslog, copy the new daemon, and HUP it. You shouldn't have named doing much logging anyways, unless something is wrong. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990