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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: syslogd writing logs to wrong file
From:       Dan Nelson <dnelson () allantgroup ! com>
Date:       2005-11-30 19:04:01
Message-ID: 20051130190401.GG54383 () dan ! emsphone ! com
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In the last episode (Nov 30), Efren Bravo said:
> I've a freeBSD6.0-i386 with IPFv4.1.8 and these
> lines in /etc/syslog.conf
> 
> *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err   /var/log/message
> security.*                            /var/log/security
> ...
> 
> Why syslogd is writing into /var/log/messages
> instead of /var/log/security.

It should be writing to both.  If you don't want security entries in
/var/log/messages, put a "security.none" selector in.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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