RE: syslog help - SOLVED

Works great. thanks

Tony Heal
Pace Systems Group, Inc.
800-624-5999
theal@pace2020.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:dtutty@porchlight.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:07 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: syslog help
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:54:23PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote:
> > I am trying to move my postgresql (v7.4) logging out of the syslog and
> > into a postgres.log. I want to do this so I can turn on logging full
> > bore and have logrotate keep the logs to a reasonable size.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is my problem. Postgresql v7.4 will either log to STDOUT, syslog
> > or none. I have been looking at syslog.conf and trying to set this up
> > and I have what looks good, but I still get the entries in the syslog.
> > Here is what I have for syslog.conf
> >
> > Local0.* /var/log/postgresql/postgres.log
> >
> > I also tries this with cron and that did not work either. Is this even
> > possible? Can I redirect entries out of the syslog into another file,
> > or does this facility only copy the entries to another file, while
> > maintaining them in the syslog.
>
> My /etc/syslog.conf has the following line:
>
> *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
>
> The *.* means that _everything_ logged to the syslogger goes into
> /var/log/syslog.
>
> man syslog.conf tells us that with one line where terms are separated by
> ';', latter terms override earlier terms. Assuming that your Local0.*
> gives you the log you want, you should be able to append ';Local0.none'
> to the *.* line to exclude them from /var/log/syslog.
>
> Doug.
>
>
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