Re: problems with syslog

[Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@xxxxxxxx>]

I log to syslogd with ircd2.10.3p1 on FreeBSD 4.1 using the following setup:

syslogd.conf:
local5.*				/var/log/ircd


config.h:
#define USE_SYSLOG

#ifdef  USE_SYSLOG
#define SYSLOG_KILL     /* log all operator kills to syslog */
#define SYSLOG_SQUIT    /* log all remote squits for all servers to syslog */
#define SYSLOG_CONNECT  /* log remote connect messages for other all servs */
#define SYSLOG_USERS    /* send userlog stuff to syslog */
#define SYSLOG_OPER     /* log all users who successfully become an Op */
#define SYSLOG_CONN     /* log all uncomplete/rejected connections */
  
#define LOG_FACILITY LOG_LOCAL5
#endif /* USE_SYSLOG */


I use local5 to get the ircd logging away from the daemon logging.

Works fine for me...

			Oli


On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, Piotr Swiecicki wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Phil Pennock wrote:
> 
> > On 2001-07-09 at 08:21 +0200, Piotr Swiecicki wrote:
> > >
> > > So ircd logs should be written to both files: /var/log/daemon.log and
> > > /var/log/all I suppose.
> >
> > No.  Whilst some implementations might support it, typically * is not
> > valid for a level, only a facility.
> >
> > Try daemon.info and *.info instead (or .debug if you really want
> > everything) and HUP syslogd.
> 
> I've added such entries:
> *.info                                                  /var/log/info
> *.debug                                                 /var/log/debug
> 
> 
> and after restarting syslogd and ircd, ircd still dosn't log anything to
> these files. I didn't think it was important and I didn't mention it
> earlier, but I've got in my /etc/syslog.conf file an entry:
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none                          /var/log/messages
> and in this file there were never any logs from ircd.
> 
> I really believe that the problems are caused by ircd - syslog in my
> system works correctly and I've never any problems with it. I've installed
> ircd on a few RedHat systems, 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1 and none of them logged its
> activity to the syslog daemon.
> 
> 

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Olafur Osvaldsson
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Internet Iceland inc.
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