[4754] in Athena Bugs
6.4R: /etc/syslogd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Fri Apr 13 04:44:02 1990
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 90 04:43:41 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
System type: RT (it probably also happens on a Vax)
The following is odie's /etc/syslog.conf:
# Syslog daemon configuration file
# Project Athena Workstations
#
# $Header: /paris/source/config/files/RCS/syslog.conf,v 1.9 89/11/09 21:21:38 probe Exp $
#
#
# local0 is for rshd
# local1 is for su
#
*.panic !*
kern,user.notice;*.warning @WSLOGGER.MIT.EDU
*.alert;auth.notice /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;local0.info /usr/adm/messages
local1.info;auth.notice /usr/adm/sulog
mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
#
# local5 is for fingerd
# local6 is for bootpd
# local7 is for rvd
*.warning;auth.notice probe
daemon.warning @SYSLOGGER.MIT.EDU
If you change the line:
*.warning;auth.notice probe
to read:
auth.notice;*.warning probe
it doesn't log auth.notice to me. There is nothing in syslogd(8) saying
that items beginning with * must appear first (I am assuming this is how
the parsing is messing up).
(I only spent the time yesterday to figure it out after I was getting
tired of seeing megaira not responding to timed and wanted to give Dave
a much larger hint by forcing relevant data to syslogger.mit.edu).
-Richard
