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Date:      Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:07:22 -0800
From:      Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>
To:        John Barbee <jbarbee@singular.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: redirecting modem messages
Message-ID:  <36C105FA.3857471E@thuntek.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902090819360.23062-100000@server7.singular.com>

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John Barbee wrote:
> 
> what's your syslog.conf like?

very normal, see attached at end

!ppp
*.*   /var/log/modem

where modem exists, owned by root:bin (same as messages) and 664
permissions. I put it back to messages for now, but the result is the
same. It's not looking at syslog.conf; something else is telling it
where to put those messages.
> 
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Don Wilde wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to redirect my modem error messages from /var/log/messages, but
> > they still go there even after reconfiguring syslog.conf and
> > kickstarting the syslogd daemon. I don't see any override options or
> > anything. What gives? The Handbook implies that syslogd always goes to
> > syslog.conf for its log location unless it has been recompiled, and I
> > know I haven't tweaked that. I couldn't find anything relevant in the
> > archives or Greg's book either.
> >
> > I'm using 2.2.6 on this machine with kernel pppd.
> >
> > I'm not subscribed to -questions, so please reply directly.
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*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit		/dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err	/var/log/messages
mail.info					/var/log/maillog
lpr.info					/var/log/lpd-errs
cron.*						/var/cron/log
*.err						root
*.notice;news.err				root
*.alert						root
*.emerg						*
# uncomment these if you're running inn
# news.crit					/var/log/news/news.crit
# news.err					/var/log/news/news.err
# news.notice					/var/log/news/news.notice
!startslip
*.*						/var/log/slip.log
!ppp
*.*						/var/log/modem

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