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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/43594: syslog.conf with #! in start prevents other rules from running
Message-ID:  <200210052320.g95NK4wv057575@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/43594; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To: Tuc <freebsd@ttsg.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/43594: syslog.conf with #! in start prevents other rules
 from running
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:14:19 +1000 (EST)

 On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Tuc wrote:
 
 > Now do :
 >
 > #!startslip
 > #*.*                                            /var/log/slip.log
 > #!ppp
 > #*.*                                            /var/log/ppp.log
 > *.*                                             /var/log/spool
 > *.*                                             /var/log/spool2
 >
 > HUP syslog. Now it won't log to the files.
 
 man syslog.conf says:
 
  "A program specification is a line beginning with `#!prog'"
 
 So, you are telling syslog to log all output from ppp to /var/log/spool
 and /var/log/spool2.
 
 --
 
  :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
 
         Andy Farkas
     System Administrator
    Speednet Communications
  http://www.speednet.com.au/
 
 
 

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