On 22/12/2013 16:08, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 22/12/2013 14:55, olli hauer wrote: >> What I agree is having it would be nice to have dedicated syslog >> (like yum.log) instead /var/log/messages since this is already >> spammed by most every process. > > Add something like this to /etc/syslog.conf: > > !pkg > *.* /var/log/pkg.log ... although, yes, it's a bit archaic that there are as standard LOG_UUCP and LOG_NEWS facilities in syslog(3) -- neither of which are much used nowadays -- while there is only the generic LOG_DAEMON for things like webservers, LDAP, XMPP, PPP and many other network services, and nothing at all for system maintenance type things like updating packages. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew_at_infracaninophile.co.uk
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