Hello all,
I'm wondering if someone could help me with how to keep fetchmail
from logging to /var/syslog. I read the manpages of both fetchmail
and syslog, but still don't understand.
When invoked with the --syslog option, fetchmail uses syslog:
[...] Messages are logged
with an id of fetchmail, the facility LOG_MAIL, and prior-
ities LOG_ERR, LOG_ALERT or LOG_INFO.
(from "man fetchmail"). And, my /etc/syslog.conf has
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
[...]
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
[...]
mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err /var/log/mail.err
(The full contents will be attached at the end of this message).
Non-error messages from fetchmail appear in /var/log/mail.info and
mail.log .
That I like. But, how can I prevent the same messages from appearing
in /var/log/syslog ?
I think the "*.*" part for /var/log/syslog is catching the messages
from the
fetchmail. But, seeing that the messages that appear in auth.log
don't
appear in syslog and guessing ';' means exclusion, I tried
*.*;auth,authpriv.none,mail.* /var/log/syslog
and restarted syslogd. This didn't work. Indeed, "man syslog.conf"
doesn't
say ';' means exclusion. . . . I'm sure I'm missing something.
Thank you for your help,
Ryo
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