Re: [PLUG] Logging question

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 23:11, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> 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

Nope; I changed the line, and did a /etc/init.d/syslog reload. Mail
messages still showing up in syslog, as well as mail.log.

> 
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