log files

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 10:36:18 EST 2004


Yeah, it requires mangling the syslog.conf file on the system.  It's in /etc
and there is some voodoo to it but it's not too bac.

I would imagine adding a line like:

dhcpd.*             -/var/log/dhcpd

would do dhcp for you...  Just a guess 'cuz I haven't actually tried it.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> 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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