On 1/8/03 6:11 pm, "edj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Using syslog-ng. /var/log/messages fills with "syslog-ng[717]: STATS:
> dropped 0", one after another. OK - so syslog is working. However, an
> identical log appears in /var/log/syslog. How to keep it from logging
> to messages? Sorry, but syslog.conf is gibberish to me, and the man
> page is not very helpful. Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ cat /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.out-of-the-box
o
# $Header:
/home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo,v
1.3 2003/05/12 22:43:48 msterret Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett
options {
long_hostnames(off);
sync(0);
# The default action of syslog-ng 1.6.0 is to log a STATS line
# to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while.
# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
stats(43200);
};
HTH,
Stroller.
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