From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 03:23:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18188 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 03:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA18183 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 03:23:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id VAA11798; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:53:40 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702191123.VAA11798@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: License to kill annoying syslog feature? In-Reply-To: <199702191025.VAA19543@nemeton.com.au> from Giles Lean at "Feb 19, 97 09:25:37 pm" To: giles@nemeton.com.au (Giles Lean) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:53:39 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Giles Lean stands accused of saying: > > > > 2) Add another meta-config entry like !, say %, which implies that > > I've seen (2) done somewhere, sometime. Probably on a security > related site but my brain is not working too well right now and won't > cough up the location. (If you've a cool change there in Adelaide, > please SEND IT ON!) > Sorry, our weather station said 45C air temperature outside today. We're sending it back to the people that lent it to us with a note saying that it makes the suburb too hot 8) > I prefer (2) since it is obviously different when looking at > syslog.conf. Ok. > Rather than patch syslogd I usually solve the problem by logging most > everything and only looking at stuff that swatch picks out for me. I just want to shut Socks5 up; you should see it go with a network full of Netscape machines hitting it for their mail 8( (And the office memo that told everyone to set their mail check delay right down so that people wouldn't be late for urgent meetings. *snort*) "a logfile" is good; I can watch it if I need to debug the proxy. But I want the system log on this machine to be realtively long-lived; newsyslog or no, I'm going to be looking for more space on the root filesystem to store my heavily-gzipped Socks-powered datastamps 8( There's another ripper with socks; SOCKS5_LOG_SYSLOG Sends debugging output to syslog. This is the default ... This is an environment variable that you can set, or a config option. 8) > Giles -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[