syslog.conf: *.debug

[Andy Farkas]

On 22 Apr 2003, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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)).

Perhaps the default should be changed to *.=debug.

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        Andy Farkas
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   Speednet Communications
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