syslog question

[patrick]

For some reason, switching Apache to use local3 instead of local5 and
updating syslog.conf correspondingly correct this.

Weird.

Patrick


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM, patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've configured my Apache process to send the ErrorLog to the
> syslog:local5 facility.
>
> In my syslog.conf file, I have:
>
> !httpd
> *.*                                             /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
>
> to catch these log messages. This works great, but these messages are
> also going into my /var/log/messages which has:
>
> *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err
> /var/log/messag
> es
>
> Apache sends to local5.notice. I have tried add local5.none to this
> line which according to the man page is suppose to disable all local5
> messages, but they still come through. Is there something I'm missing
> here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>