From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 9:32: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ghostwheel.tribble.net (ghostwheel.tribble.net [206.124.26.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D13037B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gder@localhost) by ghostwheel.tribble.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1EHVoK88216; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:31:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gder) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:31:50 -0700 From: G-der To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf - duplicate entries in logs Message-ID: <20010214103150.A88146@gder.net> References: <20010212202638.A52861@gder.net> <20010212225510.L62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212225510.L62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err;daemon.warning /var/log/messages Great, this seems to have worked like a charm. I was worried that the *.notice would have a higher priority than the daemon.warning (aka I would continue to receive daemon.notice messages) but that is apparently not the case. The man page is right: "The effects of multiple selectors are sometimes not intuitive." But thanks for the help - it looks like it's working the way I want it. G-der gder@gder.net aka Gene Dinkey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message