catch-all daemon.info entry in syslog.conf is a bit unhelpful

[Yuri Pankov]

Yuri Pankov wrote:
> I understand it's been quite some time since it was added, but I have
> been bitten by it just now.  I am adding per-daemon .conf files for
> ports in /usr/local/etc/syslog.d/ and noticed that none of them were
> working.
> 
> An example entry is:
> 
> $ cat /usr/local/etc/syslog.d/dhcpd.conf
> !dhcpd
> *.*     /var/log/dhcpd.log
> 
> Then I noticed the daemon.info entry in /etc/syslog.conf and had to
> workaround it like below:
> 
> !-dhcpd
> daemon.info                                     /var/log/daemon.log
> !+dhcpd
> 
> Given the above, I'm wondering if we could move the daemon.info entry to
> the bottom *after* we read the include dirs, so it would only select
> everything that is not handled already?

Or, better yet, ignore this; I'm not sure what exactly I was doing
wrong, but after I sent the mail it all started working as it should
(happens all the time for me), sorry for the noise.