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[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:38 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 08:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:26 +1000, 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
> > > 
> > In f7 syslog.conf is suppled by the rpm:
> > sysklogd-1.4.2-9.fc7
> > 
> > I assume it is the same in f8.
> ----
> of course that would be a very incorrect assumption...this has already
> been covered but...
> 
> # ls -l /etc/*syslog*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 2007-12-19 17:07 /etc/rsyslog.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738 2007-12-19 14:18 /etc/rsyslog.conf~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 996 2006-10-12 01:04 /etc/rsyslog.conf.rpmnew
> 
> # rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/rsyslog.conf
> rsyslog-1.19.11-1.fc8
> 
I guess I found that out. I mean to look but just as a matter of
interest is this change covered in the release notes?
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