[SunHELP] Solaris syslog question

[Matthew Schumacher]

thanks, that explains it...


Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > I have these two lines in my syslog.conf on my solaris 8 machine:
> >
> > mail.debug;mail.info;mail.notice;mail.crit      /var/log/maillog
> > *.info                                          /var/log/messages
> >
> > For some reason, solaris will not log anything to /var/log/maillog,
> > however I get mail.info logs in /var/log/messages just fine.  Can anyone
> > see what I am doing wrong?  Also, why does solaris refuse to use mail.*?
> 
> there is no mail.* because the syslog priorities don't work the way you are
> expecting them to.  mail.info means log all messages of priority INFO or higher
> which is everything except debug.
> 
> so a lot of that is un-needed, try:
> 
> mail.debug                                      /var/log/maillog
> *.info;mail.none                                /var/log/messages
> 
> which will log everything for mail in /var/log/maillog and everything else of
> priority INFO or higher EXCEPT mail into /var/log/messages
> 
> and make sure you use TABS not spaces.
> 
> > I am using syslogd -d to debug config file errors.
> 
> i don't use the -d option so i don't know how smart it is.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -brian
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