On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:58 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:26 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > John Cornelius wrote: > > > > > >> I suppose that adding: > > >> > > >> bpalogin.* /var/log/bpalogin/messages > > >> > > >> to /etc/syslog.conf would be too easy but it might do it for you. It > > >> should go before the omnibus line that sends *.info to /var/log/messages. > > >> > > >> > > > I don't believe this will work with syslogd. It may work with some > > > of the newer replacements. You may want to read the syslog.conf man > > > page to see the formats that it accepts. > > > > > > Mikkel > > > > > I find that I don't have a 'syslog.conf' in /etc/ and no man syslog,conf. > > Ah! F8 uses rsyslogd instead of ye ol' syslogd. The config file > is /etc/rsyslog.conf. > > Your fix is easier with rsyslogd. Add a line like: > > :bpalogin, contains, "bpalogin" /path/to/desired/log/file Whoops! Make that: :programname, contains, "bpalogin" /path/to/log/file (gotta proofread better!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
