On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, david walcroft wrote: > 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. careful. you actually have a choice these days, IIRC -- there's also syslog-ng in addition to rsyslog. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================