On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:01:16AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > *.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,user.none /var/log/messages > > daemon.info /var/log/daemon > > Yes, and that logs messages of facility LOG_DAEMON and priority > LOG_NOTICE to both /var/log/messages and /var/log/daemon. If you > don't like this, see syslog.conf(5).
OK, thanks. I see it now: *.notice matches daemon.notice. > > pptp is using LOG_NOTICE to log 'normal' messages. > > ppp(8) never uses LOG_NOTICE at all, it uses LOG_INFO instead. > > Well, maybe LOG_NOTICE is indeed the wrong priority, but that is a > different argument from changing it as a workaround to reconfiguring > syslogd. Yes, it is indeed the wrong priority, at least from looking at ppp(8). Let's use the "wrong priority" argument so? :) -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
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