/var/log/messages

[david walcroft]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:26 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>     
>>> John Cornelius wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I suppose that adding:
>>>>
>>>> bpalogin.*   /var/log/bpalogin/messages
>>>>
>>>> to /etc/syslog.conf would be too easy but it might do it for you. It
>>>> should go before the omnibus line that sends *.info to /var/log/messages.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I don't believe this will work with syslogd. It may work with some
>>> of the newer replacements. You may want to read the syslog.conf man
>>> page to see the formats that it accepts.
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>>>   
>>>       
>> I find that I don't have a 'syslog.conf' in /etc/ and no man syslog,conf.
>>     
>
> Ah!  F8 uses rsyslogd instead of ye ol' syslogd.  The config file
> is /etc/rsyslog.conf.
>
> Your fix is easier with rsyslogd.  Add a line like:
>
> 	:bpalogin, contains, "bpalogin"	/path/to/desired/log/file
>
> Then "service rsyslogd restart".
>
>   
I found out the service command is "service rsyslog  restart"

     david
 







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