Using syslog ( was Re: (no subject) )

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Wed May 30 06:14:43 UTC 2007


On Tue, 29 May 2007 16:44:27 +0200
"grace Ingabire" <ingabireg at terracom.rw> wrote:

Hi Grace, 
please use an appropiate subject when sending to the list.

> I have installed and configured  freeBSD 6.1  and have seen the
> configuration of the syslog in /usr/src/libexec/bootpd.

hmm.. why are you using that file? 

/etc/syslog.conf is the file syslog will read.

> 
> I would like to monitor my system using SYSLOG.

syslog is installed and runs by default, using /etc/syslog.conf as its
configuration file. Is there anything in particular you want to do with this?

B

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