/var/log/messages

[John Cornelius]

Okay, I'll bite!

How do the messages get into the messages file in the first place?

There should be a file /var/run/syslogd.pid which contains the pid of 
the syslog daemon. If it exists then you're running syslog from the 
/etc/init.d/syslog script. If it doesn't exist you might check to see if 
it's running at all with ps -fe | grep syslog .

I suggest that you do a man syslogd to find out where the syslog.conf 
file is.

FWIW, almost all messages going to /var/log/* are handled by the syslog 
facility so if there's no configuration file I have no idea what happens.

--jc

david walcroft wrote:

> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> John Cornelius wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I suppose that adding:
>>>
>>> bpalogin.*   /var/log/bpalogin/messages
>>>
>>> to /etc/syslog.conf would be too easy but it might do it for you. It
>>> should go before the omnibus line that sends *.info to 
>>> /var/log/messages.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I don't believe this will work with syslogd. It may work with some
>> of the newer replacements. You may want to read the syslog.conf man
>> page to see the formats that it accepts.
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
>
> I find that I don't have a 'syslog.conf' in /etc/ and no man syslog,conf.
>
>    david
>
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