syslog config question

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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Hello.  I have a question that's been nagging at me for quite some time,
and it's finally gotten to the point where I need to ask somebody.

I am using the standard slink syslog.conf file, and I have bind installed
to provide name service for my local network.  Every hour, named does some
housekeeping work (clears its cache, etc), the output of which is
processed by syslog. Syslog sends it to /dev/xconsole and
/var/log/daemon.log.  I would like to send these messages to a different
file, becase they are cluttering the daemon.log file and making it
difficult to locate the more interesting information.

I have read man 5 syslog.conf and man 8 sysklogd, but I'm still not sure
what changes need to be made.  I believe I need to alter the priority of
the messages that go to daemon.log, but how do I know what priority these
messages are?  And how do I know the priority of the messages that I
_want_ sent to daemon.log (specifically, connection attempts logged by tcp
wrappers and tcplogd)?  If I discover that they're the same priority, am I
out of luck?

Thanks in advance to the person who can enlighten me.

noah

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