Re: [PLUG] Logging question

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:14:00PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> My mail server is sending it's logs to /var/log/mail.log (which is what
> I want), but is *also* writing the same info to /var/log/syslog - which
> I don't want. I know (or think I know :-) that I have to change the
> syslog.conf, but I'm unclear as to what to change, and to what.
> 
> /etc/syslog.conf has:
> *.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
> mail.*                          -/var/log/mail.log
> 
> Is the *.* why everything is doubled? And should it be that way?

Try changing the first line to

*.*;auth,authpriv,mail.none          -/var/log/syslog

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