From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 20: 8: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53E137BFF7 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA25929; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:07:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:07:33 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf question Message-ID: <20000428230732.D25309@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200004281729.NAA02828@jestocost.cosc.morrisville.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200004281729.NAA02828@jestocost.cosc.morrisville.edu>; from root@jestocost.cosc.morrisville.edu on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:29:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:29:11PM -0400, Charlie Root wrote: > > I am trying to customise my syslogd and I was just wondering if anybody > could give me a pointer to info on what types of messages you get in the > different categories at the differnet levels. > > eg. from kern, or mail, etc. > > I am looking for a single man page (not man syslog.conf) or web page. I am not aware of one source for this. I am not even aware of very many individual sources for this. Any program can make syslog(3) calls. It would be a huge task to bring all of the information together... and then how do you keep it up to date? I have found this problematic too. Few, if any, manpages address what syslog facilities their own programs use, let alone what events generate messages at what levels. I almost always end up going to source code, % egerp '(open|sys)log' *.c To figure it out. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message