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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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------692EB289FC8D6EA47B7CF443 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > -- > > oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * > > o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ > > V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] > > /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo --------------692EB289FC8D6EA47B7CF443 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="syslog.conf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="syslog.conf" *.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 --------------692EB289FC8D6EA47B7CF443-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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