Re: /etc/syslog/conf

[19:07:49 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/syslog.conf sysklogd: /etc/syslog.conf [19:09:26 /tmp]$ Therefor, unpacking the sysklogd package and taking /etc/syslog.conf from it should get you back the config file. But I am not sure that other packages do not change it to suit there needs. If I am not mistake

Re: /etc/syslog/conf

On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 05:12:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > if reinstalling the package won't touch your config file you could > extract the .deb manually and grab the file yourself i suppose. > If you are using the latest potato dpkg, just: rm -f /etc/syslog.conf dpkg --force-confmiss -

Re: /etc/syslog/conf

On 21/11/99 ktb wrote: I saw this nifty little command at Linux.com and I thought I would give it a try. It reroutes log information to tty12. The command was, echo '*.* /dev/tty12' >/etc/syslog.conf The file now looks like this, ~$ cat /etc/syslog.conf *.* /dev/tty12 the command was proba

/etc/syslog/conf

I saw this nifty little command at Linux.com and I thought I would give it a try. It reroutes log information to tty12. The command was, echo '*.* /dev/tty12' >/etc/syslog.conf The file now looks like this, ~$ cat /etc/syslog.conf *.* /dev/tty12 I didn't realize that it would become "permanent