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[Malcolm-Rannirl <address@concealed>]

On Friday 17 September 2004 05:08 am, Tanel Kindsigo wrote:

> [root@dragon root]# grep log /etc/wwsympa.conf
> ###\\\\ Syslog ////###
> log_facility    LOCAL1
>
> [root@dragon root]# grep LOCAL1 /etc/syslog.conf
> LOCAL1.*                          /var/log/sympa

> Why does it log itself into /var/log/messages also, if I told it to log
> into separate file /var/log/sympa?

Because you almost certainly have a line in /etc/syslog.conf that looks like:

*.info;mail.none;;news.none;authpriv.none                   -/var/log/messages

If you want to exclude sympa from /var/log/messages, you would change the 
above to:

*.info;mail.none;;news.none;authpriv.none;LOCAL1.none                   
-/var/log/messages


(at least on a linux box, syslog.conf varies slightly on other *nix, check 
the 
manpage if needbe).

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