Question about syslog.conf

[Eric Crist]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:45 AMSep 14, 2007, Nicolas Letellier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question with syslog.conf. I don't find informations about  
> this on man.
> What the utility of :
>
> !startslip
> *.*                  /var/log/slip.log
> !ppp
> *.*                  /var/log/ppp.log
>
> I don't understand how it works, because I think we must use a \ to  
> return on a new line ! For example, startslip includes ALL (.*.)  
> except !startslip ? I don't think... Because I read that.
>
> Could you explain me ?
>

![process] is probably the easiest way to describe it.  It's sorta  
opposite of how it's used in normal evaluations.  In these cases, ALL  
facilities for the startslip process will go to /var/log/slip.log.

HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks