I must become better at reading these man pages. I could not understand where I should place the "-", but I guess when the part describe the "-" flag is placed under "Regular File", then the "-" should be placed together with the filaname :) In time I will learn to read those man pages, I'm sure :)
/Søren Monday, December 16, 2002, 1:37:14 AM, Cameron wrote: CS> On 00:27 16 Dec 2002, U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | CS>> | Adding a "-" in the syslog.conf? Huh where do you find information on | CS>> | this?? What is this, and what does it do? CS> | | CS>> "man syslog.conf" should say. CS> | CS> | Yes I found it now (somehow I missed it before), but should I have a CS> | space between the "-" and the rest of the line or not? I'm asking just CS> | because I don't know if I would break anything if I just tried, and I CS> | also would not know if it worked (don't know how to test if it CS> | helped). >>From the manual entry: CS> Every rule consists of two fields, a selector field and an CS> action field. These two fields are separated by one or CS> more spaces or tabs. The selector field specifies a pat- CS> tern of facilities and priorities belonging to the speci- CS> fied action. CS> [...] CS> SELECTORS CS> The selector field itself again consists of two parts, a CS> facility and a priority, separated by a period (``.''). CS> [...] CS> ACTIONS CS> The action field of a rule describes the abstract term CS> ``logfile''. [...] CS> Regular File CS> Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has CS> to be specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash CS> ``/''. CS> You may prefix each entry with the minus ``-'' sign to CS> omit syncing the file after every logging. [...] CS> So I would say that the only place you can have whitespace is between the CS> selector and the action, and therefore the "-" prefix may not have whitepsace CS> between it and the log file name. CS> Cheers, CS> -- CS> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ CS> A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about some real CS> money. - Senator Everett Dirksen -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
