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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: syslogd and inn 1.5.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE
Date: 7 Apr 1997 13:15:13 GMT
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In article <ragn6ci0.fsf@pcrown.net>,
Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> writes:
>
> Can someone please give me a working example of syslog.conf for INN
> 1.5.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE?
>
> Here's my NON-working example, I am unable to get the
> /var/log/news/news.* heirarchy to work. I have tried adding news.none
> to *.err and *.notice, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
> *.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit /var/log/messages
> mail.info /var/log/maillog
> lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs
> cron.* /var/cron/log
> *.err root
> *.notice;auth.debug root
> *.alert root
> *.emerg *
> !startslip
> *.* /var/log/slip.log
>
> #
> # INN
> #
> news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
> news.err /var/log/news/news.err
> news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
> news.info /var/log/news/news.info
Your config file will only log news.* messages that are sent by
the "startslip" program if I'm not mistaken. Try putting them
either in the global section at the start of the file or in an
innd section (I don't know that that's the name innd uses).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !