Re: (PM) More on syslog

John W Baxter (jwblist@olympus.net)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:45:17 -0800

At 14:35 -0800 3/3/99, Mike Greene wrote:
Intially quoting another...
>>If you have a newer version of syslogd, you'll need to start syslogd with
>>the -r option. According to "man syslogd" this was introduced with version
>>1.3 of syslogd.
>
> Must be running an older version then, -r is not a valid option for BSDi
> 3.1 syslogd. I should check the patch level on this host, could be there
> is a patch that addresses this.

BSDi uses the reverse of the -r for accept remote logic: syslogd -l
says local connections only (that's elle for local, not one for one machine).

But, since some transactions are being logged, the problem lies
elsewhere...probably with what /etc/syslogd.conf is doing with the
facility/priority you are using for the messages. I decided not to
mess with that, and used a pair I hoped would work:

admin-logins: auth.info
user-logins: auth.info
...
termination: syslog.info
(It then turned out that both auth.info and syslog.info are going to
the "messages" log.)

Someday, I'll have to learn /etc/syslogd.conf (unless we switch to
Linux first).

--JOhn

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