Re: complex syslog facility daemon

[Juergen Nagler <Juergen.Nagler@student.uni-ulm.de>]

Thanks for the answer anyway!

> Juergen, syslogd.conf in /etc lets you tell each item where it gets
> logged.  This way you can have an nfs log, mail log, ftp log, etc.  Read
> the man page for this and look at the example.  Should be helpful.  If
> this not what you wanted please repost with a more descriptive
> explanation.

Ok, more descriptive: All programs have a log, that's not the problem.
The problem is, they all use the same log file. All daemons (dhcpd,
sshd, in.telnetd, in.xntpdm, cfingerd, in.qpopper) for example use
/var/log/daemon.log because of the line

"daemon.*	/var/log/daemon.log"

in /etc/syslog.conf. So there are many entries of every daemon and it's
very complex. A quick overview is impossible. Ok, I could set the level
higher, maybe LOG_WARNING or LOG_ERR, but what I want is a splitting by
programs. On the SUN we set therefor the facility to some LOG_LOCAL? by
changing the source of the daemon and recompiling it.

Is this the only posibility or are there others? Are there any scripts
doing a splitting by "idents" (man 3 syslog, see "void openlog")? This
is what I'm searching for.

Thanks for any answers,

Juergen

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