Am 23.03.2013 08:13, schrieb Noel Butler: > On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 03:28 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> maybe you should explain why not using syslog as >> everybody else > > Why do you think you speak for everybody else? Because you sure as hell > don't, so stop pretending to. WTF is in the air this week, it seems to > contain a few self proclaimed god's who apparently know what everyone else > does, or, at least thought they did
blablablanla > I too have always used dovecot logging to specific files for over a > decade, I know plenty of others too maybe you should RTFM, this is nothing you can't do easily with rsyslog and much more felxible as with any program option # systemd-logind not in /var/log/messages :programname, isequal, "systemd-logind" -/var/log/secure :programname, isequal, "systemd-logind" ~ # log dhcpd in own file :programname, isequal, "dhcpd" -/var/log/dhcpd.log :programname, isequal, "dhcpd" ~ :programname, isequal, "vmnet-dhcpd" -/var/log/dhcpd.log :programname, isequal, "vmnet-dhcpd" ~ # log hostapd in own file :programname, isequal, "hostapd" -/var/log/hostapd.log :programname, isequal, "hostapd" ~ > Anyone who knows anything about syslog on large production servers knows > avoiding it is best practice, it's also about the only thing DJB and I > ever agreed on blablablanla in large environments you even have your syslogd logging on a remote machine for auditing and security reasons
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