Re: taming syslog

2013-12-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 15/12/13 05:43, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> So I thought I'd try to suppress these messages in syslog. Some googling >> and reading man (5) syslog.conf, I decided that the line > > On Debian Wheezy the default is now rsyslog which has replaced the > previous sysklogd package

Re: taming syslog

2013-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > So I thought I'd try to suppress these messages in syslog. Some googling > and reading man (5) syslog.conf, I decided that the line On Debian Wheezy the default is now rsyslog which has replaced the previous sysklogd package. AFAIK the rsyslog uses /etc/rsyslog.conf not

Re: taming syslog

2013-12-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/15/13, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Running wheezy, fully up-to-date, with quite a busy postfix mail server, > my syslog is filling up with multi-millions of mail messages. Whilst > So I thought I'd try to suppress these messages in syslog. Some googling > Unfortunately, now nothing gets log

taming syslog

2013-12-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running wheezy, fully up-to-date, with quite a busy postfix mail server, my syslog is filling up with multi-millions of mail messages. Whilst these are useful at times, they are obscuring other important stuff, and appear in /var/log/mail.log in any case. So I thought I'd try to suppress thes