RE: [logs] syslogd

From: Chris Edillon (jceat_private)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 17:27:20 PST

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      and finally, make sure that all the whitespace in the
line you add to syslog.conf is tabs only.  on some platforms
syslog.conf is parsed with m4, which only wants to see tabs
for whitespace.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Steve Nichols wrote:

> Also don't forget to grep for the PID
> and kill -HUP $PID
> ( I know this is unix 101 but some don't know )
> 
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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
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