Re: syslog.conf question

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:16:35 +0100 (BST)


>
> I'm trying to direct all messages produced by the kernel,
> incoming/outgoing mail, rlogin/telnet messages and such to different files
> in my system.
>
> In /etc/syslog.conf i have these 2 lines (and a couple more, but they are
> not interresting):
>
> *.*;mail.none /var/adm/errors
> mail.* /var/adm/mail
>
> And it works (halfway anyway)... No mail-messages is written to the
> "errors" file, they are written to the "mail" file. But now the strange
> things starts. All rlogin/telnet messages is written to the "mail" file
> also... Why does this happen?? Have i done something wrong??
>
> Greetings,
> /Johan
>
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