Re: managing syslog

2004-08-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Frode Haugsgjerd said: > syslog.conf don't work as a filter (check line for line, stop at first match) > like iptables or sisco accesslists do. > If you stil got the default catch all ine: > *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog > in syslog.conf, the messsag

Re: managing syslog

2004-08-27 Thread Boris Pavlov
Frode Haugsgjerd wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:20:27PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, I am sorry to have to ask this here - it seems like it just should be working, but it's not, and I am now starting to get frustrated. At work we have several machines that output a lot of garbage to sy

Re: managing syslog

2004-08-27 Thread Frode Haugsgjerd
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:20:27PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > I am sorry to have to ask this here - it seems like it just should be > working, but it's not, and I am now starting to get frustrated. > > At work we have several machines that output a lot of garbage to syslog, > mos

managing syslog

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am sorry to have to ask this here - it seems like it just should be working, but it's not, and I am now starting to get frustrated. At work we have several machines that output a lot of garbage to syslog, most of which we don't need to see. The programs responsible for the garbage a