syslog question

Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot at lphp.org
Mon Jan 19 04:37:52 PST 2004


On Monday 19 January 2004 13:09, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> I've this entry in syslog.conf (which is default):
>
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
>
> I would like also to log those messages in a file called for example:
> /var/log/console.critical (I want both, /dev/console and the log file!)
>
> How should I modify the above line to achive this?

For /etc/syslog.conf:

# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log
# console.info                                    /var/log/console.log



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