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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:51:28 -0400
From:      "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>
To:        "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf: *.debug
Message-ID:  <004901c308e7$0f471490$0200000a@fireball>
References:  <20030423013826.O25182-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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From: "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>
>
> /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added.
>
> syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this?
>

That's because debug is the lowest level of logging, so in effect, you _are_
logging *.*; syslog logs debug and up, in all facilities, to the file you
specified.

-Craig



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