/var/log/messages

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Dec 20 22:50:30 UTC 2007


On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, david walcroft wrote:

> 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.

careful.  you actually have a choice these days, IIRC -- there's also
syslog-ng in addition to rsyslog.

rday
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