Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:10:44 -0800 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog Message-ID: <20040318161044.GB1588@cs025_2k> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEEMFJAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <2D4DF92E-7877-11D8-B05A-000393681B06@lafn.org> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEEMFJAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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* JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> [2004-03-18 07:30]: > *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > > That would be this > > *.err;kern.none;auth.none;mail.none /dev/console > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Doug Hardie > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Syslog > > FreeBSD 4.6. I have a server running that logs to syslog for > recording > interesting information. It uses LOG_DAEMON facility so give the > standard syslog.conf entries of: > > *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages > > all of those records go to both console and messages in addition to > the > desire file specified with a ! statement. Is there a way to modify > the > statements above such that log entries from the specified program > are > not sent to console or messages? I couldn't find anything in the > man > pages on this. I had thought I could add a "!prog" after mail.crit > in > the first entry to do that, but it appears that my memory is > corrupt. This is more of a question, but could the lines above simply be commented out? Top-posting makes list mails a bit difficult to follow logically; please do not top-post. -- Joshua Women professionals do tend to over-compensate. -- Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", stardate 1312.9.
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