Thom Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I've configured Postgres to log to stderr and defined my log directory > correctly with permissions to postgres on both user and group. I've > restarted postgres (not reloaded) but nothinig is coming out. Upon reading > the documentation for using stderr, it mentions the need to change the > system's syslog daemon. > > It says it should look something like "local0.* /var/log/postgresql" Only if you're logging to syslog. > > I can't find this syslog configuration. I have a file in /etc/syslog-ng > called syslog-ng.conf which contains the following: [snip] > I can't see how I would change this as per the documentation's > recommendations. Am I looking at the right configuration file? You'd probably need to check the syslog-ng manuals. All the syslog (original) line does is send everything that comes from local0 (which is what PG logs as) to /var/log/postgresql. > I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on an up-to-date Gentoo. I had a look at this > problem about 6 months ago and had the same problem, but now I want to get > it working. What you want in your postgresql.conf is something like: log_destination = stderr logging_collector = on log_directory = '/var/log/pgsql83' log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d.log' log_rotation_age = 1d If permissions on /var/log/pgsql83 are correct that should generate a new log-file every day with the year-month-day in the filename. You can check settings from within psql with: "show log_destination;" etc. or see them in one go: SELECT name,setting,unit,category,source FROM pg_settings WHERE name LIKE 'log%'; HTH -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
