[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Craig R Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > BH> Just seems to me that if a program's logging, e.g., SA, is set to go to
> > BH> the screen, then, unless it offers some sort of config. or switch,
> > BH> there's no need for another program to alter its behavior - though, as
> > BH> you mentioned, procmail does it.
> >
> > It does offer some config.  You can specify the facility to log to, and then
> > configure syslog to do anything you want with the logged info.  SA when it was
> > first built was not expecting to be used in a detached-daemon environment where
> > its stderr was disconnected -- so when we disconnect it in spamd, it's only
> > polite to let SA continue to communicate with the outside world (unless the user
> > specifically tells it not to by modifying syslog to drop the messages).
>
> Only the normal msglog output is sent to syslog.  Not -D output.

No longer.  CVS spamd will push all the -D messages to syslog if it's started
with -d as well.  Without -d it won't; it'll then only log to the controlling
tty.

C


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