Juergen Nagler wrote: > Ok, more descriptive: All programs have a log, that's not the problem. > The problem is, they all use the same log file. All daemons (dhcpd, > sshd, in.telnetd, in.xntpdm, cfingerd, in.qpopper) for example use > /var/log/daemon.log because of the line > > "daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log" > > in /etc/syslog.conf.
Is there any reason that you can not look in dhcp.log or whatever rather than daemon.log? I have my mail and ftp going to their own log, plus going to daemon log. So if I know it is mail, I look in mail log. Another option is to write a simple awk type script which parses the log and shows you stats, numbers of errors, etc. Re-coding and compiling is often a bad idea. -- ===== Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
