epike on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:20:11 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Logging question


how about

*.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.none

?

JondZ

> 
> 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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