Re: syslog

["Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net>]

Adam Hardy wrote:
> [...]
> I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I don't know which 
> facility.priority it is being logged with.
>
> How can I find out?

I recently had much fun (sarcasm) doing this. The only way I could find 
was to create separate logfiles for each facility:

auth.*			-/root/tmp/auth
authpriv.*		-/root/tmp/authpriv
cron.*			-/root/tmp/cron
[ ... many more as such ... ]

After I found out what facility was logging, I commented out the above 
lines and added priority lines for that facility:

daemon.=emerg		-/root/tmp/daemon.emerg
daemon.=alert		-/root/tmp/daemon.alert
daemon.=crit		-/root/tmp/daemon.crit
[ ... many more as such ... ]

After I found out what priority the logging had, I commented out those 
lines but left them in place in case I'd ever need them again.

Read "man 3 syslog" to get the lists of facilities and levels.

Now, for those programmers and documentation writers who fail to reveal 
what facilities and priorities their software applications are using, a 
virtual spanking:

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