Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:20:04 -0700 From: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> To: anindya <anindya@goonda.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote syslog question Message-ID: <3B28F243.5FFE3706@allmaui.com> References: <20010614123656.K55091-100000@phat.bastard.net>
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we simply have two lines for each facility. One for remote logging and one for local logging. local*.* has nothing to do with local logging. It is an available facility for programs such as sudo which by default uses local2.*. Craig anindya wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been running a very nice 4.3-STABLE system with > IPF as my firewall for some time now, without problems. Of > course I am sending my syslogs to a remote host, but > I want to keep an additional copy of the ipf logs locally. > My syslog.conf has just 2 lines: > > *.* @loghost > local0.* /var/log/ipflog > > I was guessing that the local0.* stuff would be sent to > both places, but that is not the case; I don't get > ipf logs on my loghost. What change do I need > to make in order to send local0.* to both places? > man 5 syslog.conf doesn't indicate that you can > take multiple actions for a given facility/priority. > <I know I can code up a proggie to pipe to which > will do what I want, but I figure there must be > an easier way.> > > Thanks, > --Anindya > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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