Udo Richter wrote: > Lauri Tischler wrote: > >>Marco G?benich wrote: >> >>>insert this into your /etc/syslog.conf: >>>local6.* /var/log/vdr.log >>> >> >>Yes, this now logs stuff to vdr.log, but some vdr-messages >>still end up in syslog, debug and messages logfiles. > > > You have to tell syslog not to add these messages to the other log > files. The format of the syslog.conf is well documented, see man > syslog.conf. > > For a hint: This line writes /var/log/syslog for me: > > *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog > > This means: Log everything of all levels (*.*), but for auth and > authpriv, log level none. > > This would also ignore all local6 messages: > > *.*;auth,authpriv.none;local6.none -/var/log/syslog > > You probably have to change some more lines that match *. in a similar way. Yes, that did it, Thanks.