Re: Help with syslog.conf syntax and structure?

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Funk
ally, > so I can't tell whether it works :) I.e., try to modify this line > > *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog > *.*;auth,authpriv.none;news.!=info -/var/log/syslog > > If I'm reading syslog.conf(5) correctly, this should stop facility > 'news' wi

Re: Help with syslog.conf syntax and structure?

2005-12-08 Thread Almut Behrens
-/var/log/syslog *.*;auth,authpriv.none;news.!=info -/var/log/syslog If I'm reading syslog.conf(5) correctly, this should stop facility 'news' with a priority exactly equal to 'info' from being logged to /var/log/syslog. Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with syslog.conf syntax and structure?

2005-12-08 Thread Adam Funk
I have what I think is a fairly standard syslog.conf (in other words, I haven't tinkered with it yet), the non-commented parts of which I've pasted below. I've been running leafnode, which generates a lot of news.info syslog entries -- making up over 95% of /var/log/syslog -- so

Re: dual postfix and split logs - syslog.conf

2005-10-26 Thread Mariusz Kruk
_name = postfix And in syslog.conf, I have this: mail.* -/var/log/mail.log mail.info -/var/log/mail.info mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn mail.err/var/log/mail.err mail-out.* -/var/log

Re: dual postfix and split logs - syslog.conf [solved]

2005-10-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:55, Hans du Plooy wrote: > In the second instance of postfix, I have this in main.cf: > > syslog_facility = mail-out > syslog_name = postfix should be: syslog_facility = local1 syslog_name = postfix > And in syslog.conf, I have thi

dual postfix and split logs - syslog.conf

2005-10-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi all, I setup two instances of postfix, with the idea in mind to separate the two sets of logs. I'm having a bit of difficulty with the logging. Running sarge. In the second instance of postfix, I have this in main.cf: syslog_facility = mail-out syslog_name = postfix And in syslog

Re: syslog.conf console logging question

2002-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:27:28AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > oh yeah, i forget to mention that i think adding "dmesg -n 1" to > the shorewall start up script will take care of this but i'm > trying to find a way to do this via syslog.conf. I think you need

Re: syslog.conf console logging question

2002-10-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
oh yeah, i forget to mention that i think adding "dmesg -n 1" to the shorewall start up script will take care of this but i'm trying to find a way to do this via syslog.conf. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

syslog.conf console logging question

2002-10-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i installed shorewall and it writes a lot of messages to the console. I tried to edit syslog.conf and then running /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart to remove all the clutter that goes to the console, but i failed miserably. What i would want to do, is to log the messages that now appear on the

Re: accidently overwrite /etc/syslog.conf

2002-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:10:23AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > hi, dpkg --force-confnew requires an action option. > > dpkg: need an action option > > > What should it be ? Er, sorry, add -i to that, so: dpkg -i --force-confnew sysklogd_1.4.1-10_i386.deb -- Colin Watson

Re: accidently overwrite /etc/syslog.conf

2002-05-28 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
hi, dpkg --force-confnew requires an action option. dpkg: need an action option What should it be ? thanks On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 07:26, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:09:05AM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > > I accidently overwrote the file /etc/syslog.conf - (was

Re: accidently overwrite /etc/syslog.conf

2002-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:09:05AM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > I accidently overwrote the file /etc/syslog.conf - (was trying to append > but instead use echo "command" > /etc/syslong.conf instead of >>) > > Is there anyway I can rebuild this file ? or uninstall or re

accidently overwrite /etc/syslog.conf

2002-05-28 Thread tvn1981
Hi, I accidently overwrote the file /etc/syslog.conf - (was trying to append but instead use echo "command" > /etc/syslong.conf instead of >>) Is there anyway I can rebuild this file ? or uninstall or reinstall some package that can rebuild it ? Or can someone send me their

RE: syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Mason
Please forgive my stupidity... cucipop does log at the mail.* category. I miss read a log file. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2002 11:44 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes Hi

syslog.conf: filtering out individual processes

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Mason
Hi, I am running cucipop daemon for POP3 mail retrieval. When someone connects to my machine to retrieve their messages I get an entry appended to /var/log/syslog. As people usually check their mail every 5 minutes I get quite a few of these messages as you would expect. >From looking at variou

Re: syslog.conf - a contest

2001-09-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> it's a *contest*, but you ain't winning anything but my eternal > gratefulness and respect from the whole group. > > i *hate* syslog.conf and the entire syslog daemon. i tried syslog-ng a > while back, but it would keep crashing - no good for a logging daemon.

syslog.conf - a contest

2001-09-06 Thread Martin F Krafft
it's a *contest*, but you ain't winning anything but my eternal gratefulness and respect from the whole group. i *hate* syslog.conf and the entire syslog daemon. i tried syslog-ng a while back, but it would keep crashing - no good for a logging daemon. (btw: anyone got better experience

Re: syslog.conf

2001-01-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:35:34AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > hi, > > is it possible to put two lines for the same facility? > > ie. > > *.emerg root > *.emerg -/var/log/emerg > > will that do both? Yes, though why you want the dash in f

syslog.conf

2001-01-30 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, is it possible to put two lines for the same facility? ie. *.emerg root *.emerg -/var/log/emerg will that do both? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387