Duane Dunston <duane@sukkha.info> writes:
> Depending on the distro you are using the syslogd daemon doesn't
> understand the "space" between the syslog facility and action. The "-" is
> used for it to understand the difference between the facility and
> action. Else it will think "kern.*" and "/var/log/newfile" is this:
> "kern.*/var/log/newfile" which is not a valid syslog facility.
Oh.. thanks. Hadn't run into that myself so didn't recognize the
syntax.
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