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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!op.net!candle.pha.pa.us!not-for-mail From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: What syslog facility is named Date: 9 Oct 1996 10:28:54 GMT Organization: a consultant's basement Lines: 44 Message-ID: <53fup6$o3u@picasso.op.net> References: <53elf3$so@presence.lglobal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s1-03.ppp.op.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Colin P. Ryan (drop@presence.lglobal.com) wrote: : Hey there, I'm trying to clear out my /var/log/messages buy : getting rid of all the lame server notices from named. : : What facility is named logging to ? : I believe it is called named and named-xfer. Here is my syslog.conf file. At boot, syslog complains it doesn't know about these, but as soon as named starts, it seems to work. # BSDI $Id: syslog.conf,v 2.2 1995/10/24 20:52:00 polk Exp $ *.err;kern.*;auth.warning;authpriv.none;mail.crit;named.warning;named-xfer.warning /dev/console #*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;authpriv,ftp,uucp,cron,news.none;kern.debug;mail.crit /var/log/messages *.debug;authpriv,ftp,uucp,cron,news.none;kern.debug;mail.crit /var/log/messages # The authpriv log file should be restricted access; these # messages shouldn't go to terminals or publically-readable # files. authpriv.* /var/log/secure lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs mail.* /var/log/maillog uucp.* /var/log/uucp/errors cron.* /var/log/cron news.* /var/log/news/news.log news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.err /var/log/news/news.err news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice ftp.* /var/log/ftp.log daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log *.emerg * *.notice;auth.warning;authpriv.none;named.warning;named-xfer.warning root #*.notice;auth.debug;authpriv.none root -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue root@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)