[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryo Furue) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> 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.
Finally I found a solution. What you need is
*.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.none /var/log/syslog
That is, "mail.none" is the key. Well, I'm afraid I don't think this
grammar is well designed, and also I think the manpage could have been
clearer. It took three or four repeated readings of the manpage plus
some experimentation until I figured this out. Perhaps, I guess most
people don't bother with syslogd and those who do already know enough
about it.
Cheers,
Ryo
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