Package: sysklogd Version: 1.4.1-18 Severity: minor
>From the man page: ---- Multiple selectors may be specified for a single action using the semicolon (``;'') separator. Remember that each selector in the selector field is capable to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this behavior you can exclude some priorities from the pattern. ---- If this were strictly true, then: *.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.error -/var/log/syslog would cause only mail messages >= error to be logged to this file. I finally got some help from the local LUG, and I have learned that some priority rules are additive and some are subtractive. So above I am really just adding to what is already available. In fact, I apparently needed to use subtractive rules, either: *.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.none;mail.error -/var/log/syslog or *.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.!error -/var/log/syslog This is not at all clear in the man page. I suggest this replacement for the above paragraph: ---- Multiple selectors may be specified for a single action using the semicolon (``;'') separator. Each selector in the selector field is capable of overwriting the preceding ones. In this regard, some selectors are additive and some are subtractive. The forms facility.priority and facility.=priority will add to what goes to the action, and the forms facility.none and facility.!priority will subtract from what goes to the action. Using this behavior you can include and exclude priorities from the pattern. ---- Actually, I'm not sure if the above paragraph is correct, because it isn't clear to me from the man page whether =priority is additive or subtractive. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-xen-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sysklogd depends on: ii klogd [linux-kernel-log-daem 1.4.1-18 Kernel Logging Daemon ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries sysklogd recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
