On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 08:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam 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. > > > > david > > > In f7 syslog.conf is suppled by the rpm: > sysklogd-1.4.2-9.fc7 > > I assume it is the same in f8. ---- of course that would be a very incorrect assumption...this has already been covered but... # ls -l /etc/*syslog* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 2007-12-19 17:07 /etc/rsyslog.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738 2007-12-19 14:18 /etc/rsyslog.conf~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 996 2006-10-12 01:04 /etc/rsyslog.conf.rpmnew # rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/rsyslog.conf rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8 Craig
