Re: /var/log/messages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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.

Your fix is easier with rsyslogd.  Add a line like:

	:bpalogin, contains, "bpalogin"	/path/to/desired/log/file

Then "service rsyslogd restart".

----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer             rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx -
- CDN Systems, Internap, Inc.                http://www.internap.com -
-                                                                    -
-                       When in doubt, mumble.                       -
----------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux