On Friday 01 August 2003 02:43 pm, Stroller wrote:
> 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.
> # 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);
> };
The generation of STATS lines isn't the problem. It's their
destination. How to keep 'em out of /var/log/messages?
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Ed Jabbour
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