syslog question

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:09:13PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> Hi,
> I've this entry in syslog.conf (which is default):
> 
> *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
> 
> I would like also to log those messages in a file called for example:
> /var/log/console.critical (I want both, /dev/console and the log file!)
> 
> How should I modify the above line to achive this?

Just add a second line with the same selectors, but a different
action.  Eg.

    *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
    *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /var/log/console.critical

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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