Hello all, I am sorry to have to ask this here - it seems like it just should be working, but it's not, and I am now starting to get frustrated. At work we have several machines that output a lot of garbage to syslog, most of which we don't need to see. The programs responsible for the garbage are also capable of sending admin emails for alerts, so I thought that a nice idea might be to have syslog log all of the messages to a seperate file that we don't logcheck, and look them over if there's an email or a problem (don't worry - these are non-mission critical type apps, and are not network accessible, so I am not too worried about missing a message for a little while). I can configure the loglevel that the apps log to, fortunately, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly. So, if I am logging to syslog level local7, I add this to syslog.conf as the first uncommented line: local7.* /var/log/noisy.log and hup syslog. I now see the messages from the apps in noisy.log, but I still see the chatter in syslog :( Does anyone see anything obviously wrong with this, to help save me from tearing hair out? Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
Attachment:
pgpUXckv7KgCR.pgp
Description: PGP signature