Syslog question

[Jez Hancock]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:21:11AM -0400, Kliment Andreev wrote:
> I have the following in /etc/syslog.conf. Notice lines (1) and (3).
> I want to log news.notice ONLY in /var/log/news/news.notice but instead of
> that I have the same output both in /var/log/news/news.notice and
> /var/log/messages. If I remove *.notice from line (3) I am afraid that I
> would not log any other *.notice messages.
> 
> (1) news.notice
> /var/log/news/news.notice
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
> (3) *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit          /var/log/messages
Try:
*.notice;news.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit          /var/log/messages

which should stop any news facility logging to /var/log/messages iirc.