Can stock syslog do hostA -> fileA?

Daniel Bye danielby at slightlystrange.org
Thu Feb 26 08:14:20 PST 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:19:34AM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote:
> I am collecting syslogs from a PIX and a couple of Barracudas. It
> would be a lot easier for each to have their own logfile. I have been
> poking around a bit; I saw this one:
> 
> +host1 /var/log/host1
> 
> but it doesn't appear to work. Is it being trumped by something else
> in the config file? Is the syntax wrong?

See this page in the handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-syslogd.html

I just followed it and it works fine.

Dan

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