On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:50 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 But again the frustration of trying to find out what options suddenly appear. There is no direct mention of rsyslogd in the Release notes. Just a web page that will allow you to find it if you know that is what you are looking for. A little circular if you ask me. -- ======================================================================= There's no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
