RE: [logs] syslogd

From: Steve Nichols (stevenat_private)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 12:00:13 PST

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    Also don't forget to grep for the PID
    and kill -HUP $PID
    ( I know this is unix 101 but some don't know )
    
    Steve Nichols
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Andy Bach [mailto:rootat_private]
    Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:01 AM
    To: Jose Nazario
    Cc: skop ganu; loganalysisat_private
    Subject: Re: [logs] syslogd
    
    
    On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jose Nazario wrote:
    
    > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, skop ganu wrote:
    >
    > > i'm setting up client and server and pointing my client log
    > > (local3.info) to the server (openbsd syslogd). it works - but the log
    > > appear on server /var/log/messages. is there any way that i could
    > > point it to /var/log/myfile ?
    >
    > man syslog.conf. its quite easy:
    >
    > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none          /var/log/myfile
    
    Be sure to touch /var/log/myfile - syslog (least-wise on Solaris) won't
    create a file, it has to exist first.
    
    a
    
    Andy Bach, Sys. Mangler
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