log files

[Cyber Source]

Thanks Mark

Mark Musone wrote:

>You can change what log messages go where by editing the
>/etc/syslog.conf file.
>
>If you look at the file, it's fairly self-explanatory and you usually
>only need to uncomment a few lines that’s already there to change the
>behavior of syslog.
>Note, you need to stop and restart syslogd in order for the changes to
>take effect..
>(man syslog.conf)
>
>
>The long answer of this is that applications use two different parts for
>logging, one is a "facility" and the other is a "priority"
>
>A "facility" in syslog land is essentially just a category, and a
>"priority" is exactly that, a piority.
>
>
>The man page of the particular application will usually tell you what
>facility and priority they log under..
>
>-Mark
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>Cyber Source
>Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:29 AM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: log files
>
>Anyone know of an easy way to have certain services send there log 
>messages to a different place. For instance, to send DHCP messages to a 
>different file other than the standard /var/log/messages. Or for any 
>other service like PPP. It would make reading the log files much better.
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