Question about syslog.conf
Eric Crist
mnslinky at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 04:59:59 PDT 2007
On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:45 AMSep 14, 2007, Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question with syslog.conf. I don't find informations about
> this on man.
> What the utility of :
>
> !startslip
> *.* /var/log/slip.log
> !ppp
> *.* /var/log/ppp.log
>
> I don't understand how it works, because I think we must use a \ to
> return on a new line ! For example, startslip includes ALL (.*.)
> except !startslip ? I don't think... Because I read that.
>
> Could you explain me ?
>
![process] is probably the easiest way to describe it. It's sorta
opposite of how it's used in normal evaluations. In these cases, ALL
facilities for the startslip process will go to /var/log/slip.log.
HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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