From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 5 03:27:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA11450 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 03:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA11443 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 03:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12056; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:25:56 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199710051025.LAA12056@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kwoody cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP log file In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Oct 1997 23:26:25 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 11:25:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Running a 2.1.7 system, installed the August 20th release of PPP the day > after it was released. Added: > > !ppp > *.* /var/log/ppp.log > > to my syslog.conf and sent a kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` to syslogd. > > My ppp.lgo file has not been written too since the upgrade. The above > addistion to syslog.conf is from the man page. Did I send the right kill > to syslogd? > > I do get an error from syslog when I reboot about something not being > right in the conf file, but as far as I can see it seems to be correct. > > Anyone have a hint...? Not a big deal really as its only my using this > system, but would like something to be logged anyway. Make sure you use tabs between the *.* and the file name - if you use spaces, syslogd ignores the line. I've added an appropriate comment to the man page. I'm not sure why you're getting an error - you'll have to be a bit more specific about that. > kwoody@citytel.net > > > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....