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From: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
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Subject: Re: syslog problem
In-Reply-To: <37DC8780.E84ACF26@raccoon.com> from John Lengeling at "Sep 13, 1999 00:11:28 am"
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Just a suggestion: replace all of the space characters (' ') with tabs.

> For some reason, I too have always had problems making changes to the
> syslog.conf file.  I use the following tools to help debug syslog.conf
> changes:
>
[helpful hints omitted, along with most of the original post]
> 
> betterformat wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > I had my fbsd firewall logging to the console but I wanted
> > to log to a file instead for a while..... so I made the following
> > changes:-
> > 
> > *.*             @10.0.0.15
> > *.*             /dev/console
> > 
> > was changed to:-
> > 
> > *.*             @10.0.0.15
> > *.*             /var/log/sys.log
> > 
> 



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