Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:43:29 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Jim McIver <jmciver@lmtribune.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 10 syslog server Message-ID: <83EB0B5B-7D94-4FC7-A578-FBA009A17332@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1916139826.11461.1483125073411.JavaMail.zimbra@lmtribune.com> References: <1916139826.11461.1483125073411.JavaMail.zimbra@lmtribune.com>
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Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Dec 2016, at 3:11 am, Jim McIver <jmciver@lmtribune.com> wrote: >=20 > Syslog messages going to /var/log/messages rather than /var/log/apac.log=20= >=20 > Followed documentation from:=20 >=20 > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html=20 >=20 > I found where this is happening to someone else, but no answer.=20 >=20 > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-November/235565= .html=20 >=20 > I even did debug option and it showed message logging to /var/log/messages= .=20 >=20 > Yes the /var/log/apac.log file exists.=20 >=20 > As the message in /var/log/messages says " <user.notice> apac jim: test me= ssage" I wonder if the line in the top of the /etc/syslog.conf that says "*.= notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/message= s" is why they go to /var/log/messages?=20 >=20 > It mentions "notice" going to /var/log/messages and that's what shows in /= var/log/messages.=20 >=20 > thought?=20 > -jm Hi Jim, Can you please provide the contents of your /etc/syslog.conf file, and also t= he relevant lines from /etc/rc.conf? What version of FreeBSD are you running= ? Note that I believe syslog will log a message multiple times if it matches m= ultiple rules in syslog.conf, but I could be wrong here. I also recommend having a read of the syslog.conf(5) man page: https://man.freebsd.org/syslog.conf Regards, Ben=
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