syslog.conf: *.debug

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:47, Andy Farkas wrote:
> /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added.
> 
> syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this?

Isn't that normal behavior (foo.level logs all messages at level and
higher, and debug is the lowest level, so foo.debug is the same as
foo.*)?  Possibly you want *.=debug instead (see syslog.conf(5)).

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