hello
i found a syslog.conf manual on the net--to whatever syslogd package
that may fit--that describes filters for 'programs' and 'hostnames',
like:
# Save ftpd transactions along with mail and news
!ftpd
*.* /var/log/spoolerr
The above to me would log everything execpt ftpd messages to
/var/log/spoolerr. Wouldn't it be easier to just write:
ftpd.*,mail.*,news.* /var/log/spoolerr
# Save forwards from hostname
+hostname
*.* /var/log/hostname
What are forwards in this case?
what do you think?
I think it sounds complicated, I've used syslogd for years and years
and never saw a need for something like this. Could you explain to us
what you are trying to solve exactly?
You could easily solve this using M4 though.
