Re: syslog.conf: *.debug

From: Brandon S. Allbery <allbery_at_ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 2003 11:59:46 -0400
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:47, Andy Farkas wrote:
> /etc/syslog.conf recently had `*.debug /var/log/debug/log' added.
> 
> syslogd seems to be sending *.* to this file. Anyone else see this?

Isn't that normal behavior (foo.level logs all messages at level and
higher, and debug is the lowest level, so foo.debug is the same as
foo.*)?  Possibly you want *.=debug instead (see syslog.conf(5)).

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Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 06:59:35 UTC

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