Ah, the havoc of one stray space at the beginning of a line. I had noticed that all the other examples of various logs one could create in syslog.conf worked right. What on Earth was so special about:
*.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.warning /var/log/syslog It's that one stray space before the first asterisk. I removed it and everything started working. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"