On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:29:16PM +0200, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote: > Why? I think it is really wasted when everything is logged to syslog, and > also logged to other, more specific files. If you want to search for Maybe people what to archive syslog for a year and the others only for a week or so. Also I find it comfortable to e.g. do a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" and get everything. (ok, have to append auth.log)
> Again, I think this is wasted effort. Instead, as an admin, you could read > mail.err, then mail.warn, and if you still feel up to it, mail.debug - it This is arguable. I don't have a real optinion on it as I use logcheck to remove the unnecessary messages from syslog and read the rest. Maybe this is really clutter. Would be interestingly to know how other distributions and other Unices do. > Regards > Kenneth bye, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet & Security for Professionals Fax 0241/911879 WESTEND ist CISCO Systems Partner - Premium Certified