I made a mistake with that posting. Diyan corrected me. On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > > -- duane Fun reading...well for some. 8-) http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/dsniff-monitoring.html http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-89.html http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-88.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.