Re: [pmfirewall] Logging

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From: Des Dougan (ddougan@telus.net)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 08:43:22 PST

Thanks for all the help on this. I was looking at the kern.* entry, rather
than the *.info, as Richard surmised. I will change my syslog.conf to suit.
I've also downloaded Psionic's logcheck as Greg suggested, and will look at
how it may help me.

Des

At 07:52 1/2/2001, you wrote:

>It sounds like you're a little confused; that's understandable.
>
> > For example, my (Debian) /etc/syslog.conf contains two lines which
> > match `kern.info':
> >
> >
> >
> > kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
> > *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
> > auth,authpriv.none;\
> > cron,daemon.none;\
> > mail,news.none -/var/log/messages
> >
> >
> >
> > These mean that the messags are duplicated in `/var/log/kern.log' and
> > `/var/log/messages'. For more details, see `man syslog.conf'.
>

Des Dougan

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