On 00:27 16 Dec 2002, U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| CS> | Adding a "-" in the syslog.conf? Huh where do you find information on
| CS> | this?? What is this, and what does it do?
|
| CS> "man syslog.conf" should say.
|
| Yes I found it now (somehow I missed it before), but should I have a
| space between the "-" and the rest of the line or not? I'm asking just
| because I don't know if I would break anything if I just tried, and I
| also would not know if it worked (don't know how to test if it
| helped).
>From the manual entry:
Every rule consists of two fields, a selector field and an
action field. These two fields are separated by one or
more spaces or tabs. The selector field specifies a pat-
tern of facilities and priorities belonging to the speci-
fied action.
[...]
SELECTORS
The selector field itself again consists of two parts, a
facility and a priority, separated by a period (``.'').
[...]
ACTIONS
The action field of a rule describes the abstract term
``logfile''. [...]
Regular File
Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has
to be specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash
``/''.
You may prefix each entry with the minus ``-'' sign to
omit syncing the file after every logging. [...]
So I would say that the only place you can have whitespace is between the
selector and the action, and therefore the "-" prefix may not have whitepsace
between it and the log file name.
Cheers,
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