Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I sit here typing away, my hard drive is constantly going on and
> off as
> those nasty worms try to infect (invade?) my computer.
> There is a way to prevent immediate syncing to the disk with syslog,
> but I
> can't figure it out and there are no examples in the man pages.
> The man page says to put a "-" in front of the selection. I did that,
> and
> things may have slowed down, but the drive is still pretty active.
> Does the
> entry below seem about right?
>
> -*.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none /var/log/messages
I believe the dash goes here instead:
*.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none - /var/log/messages
but I may be wrong...
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